Industrial public policy versus the industrialization factor in aguascalientes, Mexico 2000-2018
International Journal of Development Research
Industrial public policy versus the industrialization factor in aguascalientes, Mexico 2000-2018
Received 20th February, 2019; Received in revised form 11th March, 2019; Accepted 19th April, 2019; Published online 29th May, 2019
Copyright © 2019, Dr. Pablo Gutiérrez Castorena and Dr. Fernando Padilla Lozano. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This article approaches the sort of industrial policy that has been adopted during the last eighteen years in the city of Aguascalientes, Mexico. Such public policy stands out due to its use of formal and informal (i.e. illegal) means to attract Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The aforementioned industrial public policy has been possible thanks to the articulation of agreements between its three main social stakeholders: governments, entrepreneurs, and labor unions, who have been able to attain, during the last 18 years, a near-universal reduction of labor conflict within factories. It is noteworthy that this policy could materialize due to the vision of its rulers to push for what they call the industrial “tangible and intangible benefits,” thus transforming the region into one that is competitive in the industrial sector.
