Abstract

CORDERA, Rolando. The "Great Transformation" of the Mexican Miracle. 20 Years After NAFTA: From Adoption to Adaptation. Prob. Des [online]. 2015, vol.46, n.180, pp.11-25. ISSN 0301-7036.

An evaluation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) should not reduce it to merely the source of all our problems, or, on the contrary, their panacea. Even so, we must not forget that the economic and social performance of Mexico in these past years is an example of the historical experience of a drastic institutional change that did not produce its promised outcome. Moreover, it did not allow the structures and potentialities that a country needs to remain a democratic nation-state to develop in the midst of a profound shift towards internationalization.

Keywords : Trade openness; asymmetric structural change; social vulnerability; poverty; reconfiguration of power.