La Transformacion de una Economia: Observaciones de un Viaje a Mexico

This paper describes macroeconomic management and commercial policy reforms in Mexico during the 1980s and 1990s and reports the observations of a group of Costa Rican authorities and prominent businessmen who traveled to Mexico in June, 1991 in order to observe the implementation of these policy reforms. Interviews with government officials, private sector representatives and labor leaders are described. The government has been able to formulate a very effective and coherent strategy, based on rapid integration to the world economy and a change in the role of the state in the economy