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MICHELI THIRION, Jordy. Gas pipelines in Mexico’s Energy Reform: 2013-2014. An extractivist business model. Prob. Des [online]. 2024, vol.55, n.216, pp.67-90.  Epub 21-Jun-2024. ISSN 0301-7036.  https://doi.org/10.22201/iiec.20078951e.2024.216.70029.

In the period 2006-2018, just over 6 000 km of gas pipelines were installed in Mexico to form a gas-electricity chain, using private investment attracted by a business model based on the extraction of public resources. Successive neoliberal governments hastily promoted, without planning criteria or risk minimization, a large market for private companies that provided natural gas transportation services for electricity generation, resulting in an overcapacity whose budgetary dimensions and costly flaws have been evidenced by the State’s public documentation. This article provides an interpretation of the extractivist-based privatization process in the Mexican natural gas sector and details the mechanisms of the business model of the well-known Energy Reform.

Palavras-chave : corruption; innovation; economic growth; principal components; structural equations; L95; L98; R42; Q48; H57.