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beyond the banal presidential celebrations for the mistake
From the International Monetary Fund in its prediction of the performance of our economy, we have the stubborn reality and its punctual installment of INEGI. This reality does not take away the common frivolities of summer travelers, but neither is it moved by the Errors
in which the IMF and other international agencies have incurred by providing economic growth for the year.
As usual, the institute announced its data on employment. According to the results of the ENOE, in June the Mexicans who formed the economically active population added 61.8 million people, which represents an economic participation rate of 59.8 percent; Of these, 27.2 million are in conditions of formality (45.2 percent) and 33 million (54.8 percent) in informality.
“From 2018 to 2023 – Luis Miguel González, director of The economist, In a suggestive structure note – the economic units that are in informality grew faster. There were 62 percent of the total in 2018 and now there are 64.3 percent (…) every year 85 thousand 166 economic units to informality were added (…)
Formality grew more slowly. There were 1 million 795 thousand 259 units in 2018 and reached 1 million 952 thousand 141 in 2023. In five years the number grew 156 thousand 882
. (Luis Miguel González, “The economic census 2024 gives us ‘the other data’”, The economist, 7/25/25).
Seen thus, data on the performance and quality of work in our country cannot lead to optimism. The numbers They speak
of an economy that is not right, despite its positive evolutions, whose gears are oxidized, which has years of little growth and whose attention has been postponed again and again; They tell us about a numeral that, due to their undeniable weight in the large numbers of the national community, should lead us to clarify the tone and content of the presidential speeches on the march of our economy, which little contributes to increasing work in decent conditions and with good salaries as a way in front of poverty, as Rogelio Gómez Gómez Hermosillo clearly demonstrates in his article Good news: greater income for work, but …
(El Universal, 1/8/25).
For some reason, the public discourse maintains as a slogan that sadly famous phrase of Jaime Serra Puche when, being secretary of Commerce, he postulated that The best industrial policy is what does not exist
. And so it has been to date. Millionaires resources are determined in poorly planned and worse designed projects, without worrying about minimal planning that guides a productive redesign that specifically considers the latest regions already mostly excluded population groups, particularly young people and women.
Mexico has to recover the very idea of industrial policy, as well as hurry to refound the practices that are its own. We have to increase substantive and sustaining public and private investment without neglecting basic lines that, in part, have been exposed. Both in technical training and the training of management and programming tables, and in the decisive basic education; We have huge gaps that demand immediate action. An industrial policy that is part of a general social and political recognition that while including social inclusion and environmental sustainability, contributes to strengthening branches, chains and productive poles.
Adopt regional and sectoral policies of conversion and support – in particular, a regional development and infrastructure development strategy – are able to close the regional and state gaps, of socio -territorial inequality. There is no Nearshoring On this agenda. Much less Friend Shoring
. The competition is and will be fierce and so we will have to do with it.
Surveying our developmentalist vocation implies bringing to the Bureau of National Driving Principles of broad, global and local spectrum. Thus we could presume to make our principles such as those provided in the Right to development
consecrated by the UN General Assembly. It is not an easy task, less will be without taking the first steps.
