1. Mexico: A comeback story
Alvaro Uribe Vélez

2. How can reforms improve the
conditions in México?

3. México by the numbers compared with other regional countries
Indicator Mexico Brazil Argentina Colombia Peru Venezuela Chile
Nominal GDP
(US$ Billion)
1.251 2.203 402 386 213 318 250
GDP Growth
2013
2% 2.4% 4.5 3.9% 5.7 0% 4.8%
Nominal Fiscal
Balance %GDP
-1.5% -2.8% -2.2 -1% 1.2% -1% -0.5%
Public Sector
Debt % GDP
25.3% 28.2% 50.6% 36.5% 20% 24.9% 7.5%
Unemployment 5% 6.2% 7% 9.0% 7.6% 8.4% 6.6%
FDI US$ Million 22.500 70.000 6.000 13.000 10.000 -1.000 28.600
Trade Balance
US$ million
2.699 16.300 12.300 -1.614 5.280 26.000 3.157

4. México has improved in the Doing Business Rankings while lagging
in the World Competitiveness and the Human Development Index
Indicator Mexico Brazil Argentina Colombia Peru Venezuela Chile Ecuador
DB 2013 48 130 124 45 213 180 37 139
DB 2012 53 128 116 44 5.7 179 33 134
Global
Competitivene
ss 2012-2013
53 48 96 69 61 126 33 86
Global
Competitivene
ss 2013-2014
55 56 104 69 61 134 34 71
IDH 2012 61 85 45 91 77 71 40 89
IDH 2011 57 84 45 87 80 73 44 83

5. Peña Nieto signed with PRD and PAN a Pact for Mexico
Due to the congressional composition a political consensus on sensible and needed
reforms is required…

6. The needed reforms
Fiscal
Simplify the Tax Code
Close loopholes
Make Tax collections more
efficient
Punish evasion
Scale back exemptions and
subsidies
Raising Tax rates for
corporations
Tax capital gains
Exoand the added value tax
base
Energy
The State maintains PEMEX
control
Allow PEMEX to to enter into
profit-sharing contracts with
private companies
Amend Article 27 of the
Mexican Constitution,
allowing oil and gas
concessions
Education
Strengthening Teacher
Evaluation
Digital literacy
Escuelas de tiempo
completo.
Constitutional Reform to
Gran the Teacher Evaluation
Institute more autonomy
(Instituto Nacional para la
evaluación en la educación)
Security
Improve Policy Planning
Crime prevention agenda
Human Rights enforcement
Security Forces coordination
Institutional transformation
Monitoring and evaluation

7. The reform´s impact
The
Reform
Agenda
Increase Fiscal
Strength for Social
Investment
Investor confidence
Improve FDI
Make Security a
social value
Make teachers
quality the trigger for
better education
systems
Make security a
democratic value
that generates
coordination among
police and military
bodies
Improve security
coordination
between the
National Government
and Local Authorities

8. The Reform’s impact in Mexico’s regional Stature
Energy
•Create Intra-Regional Investment
• Expand Mexico’s role as an energy provider
Security
•Expand Intra-Regional anti-crime policies
•Dismantle and inmobilize criminal groups that
have regional operations
•Set example for other countries with
institutional complexities
Fiscal
•Set an example for other medium income
regional countries
•Allow Mexico to fund new innovative social
programs for low income families
• Improve Mexico’s financial strength
Reforms
Education
•Set new standards for teacher quality that can
expand to other countries
• Introduce a digital literacy program that can
trigger intra-regional knowledge exchange with
students from other countries

9. Has NAFTA or the relation with the U.S. affected
Mexico’s relation with Latin America and the
Caribbean?

10. NAFTA today
NAFTA by the numbers
NAFTA created the
world's largest free trade
area, which now links
450 million people
producing $17 trillion
worth of goods and
services
The NAFTA countries
(Canada and Mexico),
were the top two
purchasers of U.S.
exports in 2010.
(Canada $248.2 billion
and Mexico $163.3
billion)
The NAFTA countries
were the second and
third largest suppliers of
goods imports to the
United States in 2010-
2012. (Canada $276.5
billon, and Mexico
$229.7 billion)
U.S. imports of
agricultural products
from NAFTA countries
totaled $29.8 billion in
2010. Leading categories
include: fresh vegetables
($4.6 billion), snack
foods, (including
chocolate) ($4.0 billion),
fresh fruit (excluding
bananas) ($2.4 billion),
live animals ($2.0
billion), and red meats,
fresh/chilled/frozen
($2.0 billion)

11. The Pacific Alliance by the numbers
Despite the strategic importance of NAFTA, Mexico has continousy expanded its sustainable trade
with other regional countries.
The four founding nations (Colombia, Peru,
Mexico and Chile) of the Pacific Alliance represent
about 36% of Latin American GDP
The countries of the Pacific
Alliance together exported
about $445 billion in 2010,
almost 60% more than
Mercosur
The Mercado Integrado
Latinoamericano (MILA)
currently integrates the stock
markets of Colombia (Colombia
Stock Exchange), Chile (Santiago
Stock Exchange), and Peru (Lima
Stock Exchange)
If the Alliance for the Pacific
were a Country it would be the
ninth largest economy in the
world with a nominal GDP of
more than US$2 trillion
The Pacific Alliance has a
population of more than 200
million people. They no longer
require tourist Visa for Alliance
Members
Costa Rica joined the Alliance in
May 2013

12. Areas for new regional ties

13. Areas were Mexico can bolster its relations with Latin America and the Caribbean
Creative Industries: The creative sector represents 7% of the
Mexican GDP
Climate Change adaptation and prevention. The Mexican
Government is a regional leader in Domestic Policy for climate
change adaptation
Natural disaster management and prevention
Financial Markets – Stock Exchange- integration
Security and Anti-Organized crime policies

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