Growth factors in the economic region number VII of Hidalgo a sector analysis

Abstract

The neoliberalism as a hegemonic current worldwide has promoted through its ideas the free market as a dogma of good economy. In Mexico, after the 80´s debt crisis, there is a change in government policy and the welfare state is abandoned by the market economy. More than 30 years after the implementation of neoliberal ideas, the country is experiencing a situation of economic instability, high unemployment, job insecurity, high concentration of wealth and poverty. The benefits derived from the model have been concentrated in few hands and in few economic sectors, mainly in those that promote the generation of export products. Support to exporting companies has impaired the generation of goods focused on the domestic market, abandonment to the field in favor of the export manufacturing industry has increased the vulnerability of Mexican workers. Therefore, the objective of this work was to show that, in the context of neoliberalism in region VII of the Hidalgo State, dynamic export sectors have been favored over local sectors, which has caused a deterioration in local production. For this, the Shift and Share technique was applied to collect the degree of specialization of the region in the years 2009 and 2014. The results indicate that the region number VII of the state of Hidalgo has lost competitiveness and has not managed to grow in the same way in which the entity has done it. In addition, only the manufacturing sector has grown in all the municipalities that make up the region, impacted by the dynamics of the sector itself, which is consistent with the country's export dynamics.