Acquiring the Skills and Legitimacy to Better Manage Local Economic Development: The Case of Jalisco, Mexico

Abstract

During the past decade, sub-national government agencies in the late industrialized nations have taken on greater responsibilities in the area of economic and industrial planning. This has been especially true in Mexico where fiscal and planning decentralization, shifting local politics, the recent entry into the North American Free Trade Agreement (1995), the peso crisis and resulting job-loss (1995–1997) and the latest wave of investment opportunities (in part an outgrowth of NAFTA) have, to varying degrees, facilitated greater intervention in the local economy by state-level planning and development authorities. Since the mid-1990s most state governments in Mexico have substantially increased the number of staff and working budgets of their economic development ministries.

Citation

Lowe, N. (2006), "Acquiring the Skills and Legitimacy to Better Manage Local Economic Development: The Case of Jalisco, Mexico", Galbraith, C.S. and Stiles, C.H. (Ed.) Developmental Entrepreneurship: Adversity, Risk, and Isolation (International Research in the Business Disciplines, Vol. 5), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 325-354. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1074-7877(06)05017-3