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What Is Mexico 1995

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Mexico’s economy in the 1980 to the 1995 was a mixture of state owned industrial plants, private manufacturing, and services. The macroeconomics policies of the 1970’s left Mexico’s economy very vulnerable to external conditions. Making this turn sharply into Mexico in the early 1980’s causing the worst recession since the 1930’s. This is known in Mexico as “La década Perdida”, meaning “the lost decade”. It was undermined by fiscal mismanagement. This resulted a sharp deterioration of the investment climate. The GDP grew more than 6 percent annually during President Luis Echeverría Álvarez term, and at about a 6 percent rate during the time of his successor, José López Portillo, but economic activity fluctuated wildly during the decade, …show more content…

Consequently, budget deficits soared to 10% of GDP in 1975 and 1976. According to RaboResearch, the growth rate of the monetary base accelerated to 33.8% in 1975. As a result, inflation rose above 20% in 1973 and 1974. Meanwhile, the balance of payments declined. Due to rising inflation, the real exchange rate grew quickly and was a large slip up. The current account deficit recorded 5% of GDP in 1975. Total foreign debt increased quickly to 31% of GDP in 1976. On 31 august 1976, under huge balance of payments pressure, the peso devalued nearly 50% and the economy turned into a recession. Shortly thereafter, Lopez Portillo was installed as president. He reached an agreement with the IMF on a stabilization program. In the first year, inflation, the current account deficit and the budget deficit started to fall.
In August of 1982, Mexico was the first of many Latin American countries to not be able to pay off their loans on the money they borrowed. It began in February of 1982, a sharp decline in international reserves forces Mexico’s government to decrease the value of the peso. This made the dollar-denominated debt burden increase, mostly to the United States commercial banks. With the marked down of the peso, Mexico’s government is not able to stop its loss of reserves and runs out of money. Mexico’s Minister of Finance, Silva Herzog, tells the US government and the International Monetary Fund program, that Mexico is unable to service its external debt of 80

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