Mexico

The market for medicine in Mexico is dominated by the state, creating a challenging environment for drugs producers. However, space exists within the generics market to capture market share outside of the public sphere. In the more advanced segment of biosimilars, companies are looking to the insurance market to open up new market potential....

Steady progress has been made in the expansion and modernisation of Mexico’s health care sector in recent years. Some of these improvements have stemmed from the sector increasingly turning to public-private partnerships, with the private sector playing a larger role in operational management, outsourced services and construction. Major steps...

Against a backdrop of increasingly severe and costly climate events and natural disasters, technology is poised to play an important role in maintaining and improving global agricultural output. The adoption of digital and precision farming practices has been shown to improve crop resiliency and boost productivity and incomes, particularly in...

After decades of lacking a robust, strategic sector roadmap, Mexico launched the 2017-30 National Agricultural Plan that addresses everything from targeted crop varieties to trade partners and investment. One of the principal reasons that led the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (Secretaría de...

Mexico has posted strong agricultural export growth since 2013, turning around a deficit in the country’s trade balance of agriculture products that reached nearly $4bn in 2012. According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (Secretaría de Agricultura, Ganadería, Desarrollo Rural, Pesca y...