The move towards digitalisation and ongoing efforts to close the gap between urban and rural access to education could provide greater opportunities for Mexican youths. As part of the Fourth Transformation (4T), President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) redesigned the education reform that was introduced by the previous administration. Consequently, significant changes are...
Several policies aimed at developing a digital health care system in Mexico have seen the costs associated with bureaucracy decrease significantly. According to a policy brief published by the OECD in 2018, the simplification of government procedures across all sectors has seen the cost of administrative burdens decrease from 4.3% of GDP in...
Steady progress has been made in the expansion and modernisation of Mexico’s health care sector in recent years, though there remains room for improvement. According to the 2017 National Survey of Employees and Social Security published by Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography, the percentage of the population covered by...
Rising health care costs, ageing populations and changing lifestyles in emerging economies are stoking demand for medical technology (medtech) solutions. These entail not just smart devices that remotely monitor and transmit biometric data, but any instance of technology that helps to deliver health services. These initiatives are happening...
Major global firms continue to invest in Mexico’s pharmaceutical industry. In 2017, 20 of the world’s top-25 pharmaceutical giants were active in the country, and 22.7% of total health spending went towards the pharmaceutical industry, according to the OECD. That same year, Mexico was the second-largest pharmaceutical market in Latin America...
Since 2013 Mexico has achieved significant agricultural export growth, reversing a trade deficit in agricultural products that almost reached $5bn in 2012. According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Secretaría de Agricultura y Desarrollo Rural, SADER), the sector posted a net trade surplus of $5.8bn in 2018, up 10.8% from...
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