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The future is now: Mobilizing Mexico's resources to face new challenges
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Among the countries studied, Mexico represents the lowest-cost country, with a business cost advantage of 20.5 percent, on average, relative the US baseline. This rating reflects Mexico's status as the first emerging industrialized country to be included in Competitive Alternatives. more..

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Doing Business in Mexico 2012 compares business regulations across 31 Mexican states and the Federal District in four key areas: starting a business, dealing with construction permits, registering property and enforcing contracts. These indicators cover areas of local jurisdiction or practice. The report shows that differences in the implementation of national-level regulations and practices can enhance or constrain local business activity. It suggests that Mexican cities can improve business regulation by adopting good practices already in place elsewhere in the country.

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Mexico offers some persuasive advantages, relative to other developing economies, for companies wanting to sell into North American markets. These include a very competitive cost structure, an efficient production network and supply chain, access to both a large domestic market and the broad NAFTA market, abundant U.S.-trained local managers, and physical proximity to U.S. operations; together these advantages enable efficient management, less operational complexity, less political uncertainty, and faster payback. Little wonder industries are forming fast-growing clusters in Mexico.

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The major shift in economic power to emerging countries such as China and India should be grasped by those in established economies as an opportunity to boost trade rather than feared as an economic death knell.

This was just one conclusion of the PricewaterhouseCoopers report The world in 2050 published in March 2006, which looked at the advance of the emerging market economies and how the OECD countries could compete.

This report highlights the rapid growth and increasing global significance of what we call the E7 emerging economies: the BRIC economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China, plus Mexico, Indonesia and Turkey.

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