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In 2007 the federal Hospital Regional de Alta Especialidad del Bajío in León, Guanajuato, became the country’s first hospital to be opened under a public-private partnership (PPP) model. Since then two other major federal PPP hospitals have been opened in Ixtapaluca, Mexico State and Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas.

Although priorities vary when it comes to economic development, the increasing need for skilled labour is both a cause of and a requirement for accelerated growth across markets. This demand for technical specialists is often most concentrated in the sectors that are vital to economic advancement, including infrastructure, oil and gas...

Since enacting a constitutional change defining the right to education in 2013, Mexico has been working to implement sector reforms to enhance the national school system. As the domestic economy is primarily focused on technical export manufacturing, the reforms aim to strengthen the primary and secondary education system to increase the flow...

In recent decades, the pharmaceutical market has expanded its geographical reach. This trend appears to be here to stay; in a survey of major pharmaceutical firms conducted by global consulting firm PwC’s Strategy& team, more than half of respondents anticipated that over 30% of their global sales would originate in emerging markets by...

In 2017 Mexico’s GDP grew by 1.5%. GDP growth of 2.3% is expected in 2018. The latter compares positively against the projected average of Latin America economies, although it is lower than what was expected from the implementation of the structural reforms described below.

Stakeholders are seeking to expand the research and development (R&D) potential of the pharmaceutical market. Currently, clinical studies get around 10% of the overall investment portfolio in pharmaceutical companies in Mexico. According to the Mexican Association of Medicine Manufacturers, increasing investment will require the domestic R...