Despite high expectations, the opening up of the Mexican economy in the last two decades--unilaterally from the middle 1980s, and through NAFTA a decade later--was accompanied by both poor growth rates and increasing ...

This paper presents an analysis of the distribution of decentralized social spending in Mexico. It evaluates the distributive criteria used to allocate the Fondo de Aportaciones para la Infraestructura Social (FAIS), at ...