...Bern University of Applied Sciences Business and Administration Drugwar of Mexico The Mexican drugwar hampers the development of the national economy Final paper for the module "Academic Methods of Working" submitted as part of the degree programme Semester Class Authors Bachelor of science Business Administration 2 2i Ardian Beqiri Kevin Leiser Thomas Zbinden 22th May 2013 Benjamin Spycher Benjamin Spycher Date of submission Supervision Responsible for the module Page 2 Contents 1. 2. Introduction .............................................................................................................. 3 Source basis ............................................................................................................. 3 2.1. Research method .................................................................................................. 3 2.2. Documentation of research .................................................................................... 3 2.3. Discussion of the source material .......................................................................... 4 2.4. Summaries ............................................................................................................ 5 2.4.1. 2.4.2. 2.4.3. The Mexican Economy After the Global Financial Crisis ............................................. 5 Inside Mexico’s Drug War ............................................................................................ 5 Drug War...
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...it has been compared to Pakistan of being at risk of “rapid and sudden collapse”. However, he assumes that it has been always this way and the United States has done nothing to help the Mexican authorities on the drug-related issue. In fact, the casualties in this war rose by 100,000 deaths but it was President Obama who introduced to US Congress the Merida Initiative, in which the US government provides financial and technical aid to the Mexican government. The results of this program can be perceived in the amount of criminals and in how the Mexican armed forces have improved their weapons and intelligence services. That said, America is concerned about Mexico but they also know that their neighbor is not as worrying as Pakistan, or even Iraq and Afghanistan. However, he applauses the recent achieved reforms of President Peña Nieto and finds him a promising leader to change the current narrative of Mexico by opening the oil and telecommunications sectors, improving the education and labor system, and modifying the tax and criminal code in just the first two years under his administration. In fact, this has made of Mexico the “favorite nation” to invest for the Wall Street community and even their government bonds were rated as A- by Moody’s, making Mexico the only Latin American economy with such grade. Unquestionably, this is a remarkable progress for the country, which has been economically stagnated, in a mediocre economic development and with a serious insecurity...
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...Where Mexican economy was in 2012? The economy of Mexico is the 13th largest in the world in nominal terms and the 11th by purchasing power parity, according to the World Bank. Mexico is the second largest economy, in terms of GDP, in Latin America expanded at a strong pace for most of the past year but has started to show signs of slowly decelerating. It is important to mention that Brazil has the largest economy in Latin America. The United Nations categorizes the Mexican economy as upper middle income. It is the only Latin American member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a group comprised of the most advanced industrial societies in the world. When it comes to import/export numbers, imports in Mexico decreased to 29208 USD Million in December of 2012 from 31783.22 USD Million in November of 2012. Imports in Mexico are reported by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía. Historically, from 1980 until 2012, Mexico Imports averaged 12788.82 USD Million reaching an all time high of 35564.84 USD Million in October of 2012 and a record low of 647.02 USD Million in January of 1983. Mexico is the biggest importer in Latin America. Just as an interesting fact, Mexico imports mainly machines, steel products, agricultural machinery, electrical equipment, car parts for assembly, repair parts for motor vehicles and aircrafts. Its main import partner is United States. Mexico also imports from European Union, China and Japan...
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...The Mexican Development I. INTRODUCTION During the last decade Mexico's economic performance has been positive. In 2001 Mexico became Latin America’s largest economy according to the IMF. The implementation of economic policies have strengthened Mexico's fundamentals and increased its resilience to external shocks. Due to the GDP1 growth (25.7% percent higher than the Brazilian) Mexico is considered the fourth fastest growing economy among the 30 largest economies in the world and it is expect that the economy will growth 3% and soon It could become the first and that is why further lending needs to occur. Mexico has also achieved political and social developments in the past 10 years. The administration of President Vicente Fox is an example of transparency and his government has fulfilled almost all of his commitments that he promised at the beginning of his campaign. Thru this easy we will mention some of the many of the projects that have changed Mexico’s history. II. CONTENTS I. Introduction …………………………………………………… II. Contents ……………………………………………………… III. Economic Performance ……………………………………… IV. Economic Program. …………………………………………. a) Fiscal Policy ……………………………………… b) Exchange rate policy …………………………… c) Debt management ……………………………… V. Structural Reforms ……………………………………………… a) Private Sector involvement in the economy ……… b) Tax system …………………………………………… c) Trade and capital account Liberalization ………… VI. The Mexican economy in...
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...Globalisation, of course, is therefore a manifestation of a neo-liberal economic ideology. Globalization is a process of interaction and integration among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, a process driven by international trade and investment and aided by information technology. This process has effects on the environment, on culture, on political systems, on economic development and prosperity, and on human physical well-being in societies around the world. : all those processes by which the peoples of the world are incorporated into a single world society. : Globalization can thus be defined as the intensification of worldwide social relations which link distant localities in such a way that local happenings are shaped by events occurring many miles away and vice versa. For eg. Recession US eg The International Monetary Fund (IMF) identified four basic aspects of globalization: trade and transactions, capital and investment movements, migration and movement of people and the dissemination of knowledge. Further, environmental challenges such as climate change, cross-boundary water, air pollution, and over-fishing of the ocean are linked with globalization. Globalizing processes affect and are affected by business and work organization, economics, socio-cultural resources, and the natural environment. Globalization is deeply controversial, however. Proponents of globalization argue that it allows poor countries and their citizens to develop economically...
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...Poverty Crystal Rollins Comm/215 October 13, 2014 University of Phoenix Poverty As a kid growing up on a five acre farm, I really didn’t have an understanding of poverty. My family grew and killed what we ate. My dad worked a normal nine to five as an electrician at a local electric company; my mom was a stand at home mom until we all reached the age of going to school. My father made sure we had everything we needed and he always put our needs before our wants. I guess you could say we were the average blue collar family. As I got older, is when I noticed the difference between those who had it and could afford to go and shop until they dropped and those who could not. My upbringing has grounded me in a lot of ways; I never looked down on someone who was less unfortunate as me and I never, became envious of those who had more. I am a mother of one growing teenager, and I am living in poverty, because I rely on state assistance; because I was laid off from my job, and with my disability it is hard to find work. My child is an average teenager of today’s society and he would rather put his wants before his needs. I tell him that the world is not going to give him anything for free and he will have to learn to put his needs before his wants. For the most part, his grandfather will provide what he wants; regardless if it is a new video game or a new pair of tennis shoes. He can afford to do that, because he works a white collar job and has the means to do extra for...
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...Against The Dead Hand: The Uncertain Struggle for Global Capitalism Soviet-style Communism has fallen. The dream of centralized, top-down control over the course of economic development. That dream has now expired in universal failure. It died in the United States and Western Europe during the stagflation of the 1970s. It died in China when Deng Xiaoping declared that "it doesn't matter if the cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice." It died in Latin America during the debt crisis and lost decade of the 1980s. It died in the Soviet Empire with the collapse of the Berlin Wall. And it died in East Asia with the bursting of the Japanese bubble and the financial crisis of 1997-98. The death of that misbegotten dream, more than any other single factor, has been responsible for the process conveniently summarized by the catchword "globalization. The liberalization of international transactions is only one aspect of a larger pattern of reform. As faith in government controls has dissipated, markets have been given wider play, not only in shaping economic relations be- tween nations, but in shaping them within nations as well. The willingness to subject domestic economic actors to foreign competition has gone hand in hand with the willingness to embrace competition at home. Trade and in- vestment liberalization are thus of a piece with a broad array of market- oriented policies: in particular, the privatization of state-owned industries;...
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...forward in the administration of open assets, frail quality and upkeep of physical base, constrained nature of HR, feeble farming development, wasteful open administration conveyance to poor people, and troubles in overseeing salary from non-renewables to make investment funds for future eras. Social weights are expanding because of the high unemployment rate (26%), especially among youth; critical neediness, influencing 36.6% of the populace; and high wage imbalance. UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN MEXICO Mexican jobless rate came in at 3.96 percent in December of 2015, the same as in the earlier month and the least since March. A year prior, unemployment was somewhat lower at 3.76 percent. Unemployment Rate in Mexico found the middle value of 3.82 percent from 1994 until 2015. UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IN BOLIVIA The unemployment rate from time to time decreases underneath 4-5 percent notwithstanding amid blast times. There are dependably individuals who move between various divisions of the economy or...
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...the U.S economy is somewhat exploitative to foreigners in the country due to lower wages they get as compared to Americans (Weidenbaum, 2005). As a result, they tend to embrace foreign goods in the market due to lower prices compared to prices of American manufactured goods. Literally, the purchasing power of foreign consumers increases because they can afford foreign goods. The cost of production and manufacturing in foreign countries are lower due to lower wages as regulated by labour laws. As a result, American consumers also shift their demands to foreign goods with same quality yet cheaper. Thus, importation of foreign made goods is economically advantageous to both foreign and American...
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...Hispanic American Diversity The United States has always been a country that has many diverse racial and ethnic groups. The United States has the highest and fastest growing minority group, the Hispanics. The population of Hispanics continues to grow every year and they have become a big part of the United States. I believe Hispanics play a major role in the United States and they have a lot to offer. The Hispanic population helps to support the economy and the work force. Hispanic groups have always played an important part in the growth of the United States. The first Hispanic group that I will be talking about is the Puerto Rican group. The Jones Act of 1917 made Puerto Ricans living in the island of Puerto Rico and the mainland American citizens. Puerto Ricans are a Spanish speaking group that maintains a close relationship with their ethnicity. Puerto Ricans consider themselves to be Americans, but they are still proud of their culture and where they come from. Puerto Ricans are very nice people and they always make one feel at home. Puerto Ricans usually greet people with a hug and kiss on the cheeks (Schaefer, 2006). Family life and the amount of time they spend with their family are very important to the Puerto Rican society as well as other Hispanic groups. Puerto Ricans usually call themselves Boricuas. Puerto Ricans usually live close to family members and attend activities such as going to church, which is a very important part of...
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...Economics in the current news BUS 640: Managerial Economics Professor Kunsoo Choi June 17, 2013 Economics in the current news Economic theory is a framework for understanding how the U.S. economy works. One economic theory, classic economic theory can be defined by command economies driven by national governments. Communism and socialism are two terms associated with these economies. Majority of the economic resources are controlled by the government as one of the main ideas behind these theories. This is such the case when reading the article, Secure enough. This article talks about the government spending billions of dollars to protect the US border. The questions whether the border is truly secure even when the government is constantly spending an enormous amount of money to protect the border. To increase the safety and protection of the border, the government has increased the amount of drones that patrol the skies as well as border patrol agents. When looking at the other aspects of the economy, it can be argued that these funds can be used in other areas. According to the Migration Policy Institute, a think-tank, border enforcement costs $18 billion a year, more than all other federal criminal-law-enforcement agencies combined. With the budgets issues that are being experienced today, the border control is more of an economic issue now instead of enforcement issue. Because of the sequestration, border agents had to think of more creative ways of protecting the border...
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... For my topic today I am going to cover Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans and people from Colombia. While they are all Hispanic they have different languages, traditions and family makeup. In this paper we will discuss the differences and the similarities of these diverse groups of people. It is amazing that although they cover such a vast amount of land geographically, there is so many things that they have in common. Mexican Americans are people of Mexican decent that have either been born here in the United States or became a United States citizen after immigrating here. A lot of people that believe that Mexican Americans work at jobs here in the United States that natural born citizens will not do, such as harvesting crops, bussing tables in restaurants and general labor positions. They take these jobs and are not paid a competitive wage. It seems to stand to reason that if they would not take these jobs, the employers would be forced to increase the salary, and they would not have to work for such substandard wages. While they come to this country with Spanish as their primary language, many immigrants learn English and it becomes their primary language. While it is harder for the older people to master English, when their children are enrolled in public education it is easier for them, because they have English as a second language classes. So they get the extra instruction in English. The majority of Mexican American families are Catholic, and are very...
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...ISI Transformation: political changes: Wage increase Improved working conditions Political inclusion in the … Negative of ISI: (characterized by two different stages) Agricultural becomes uncompetitive -exchange rate: money is over-value, the price will be higher than the other countries. Keep the domestic currency strong relative to foreign currencies Need to import capital goods (machinery) to produce consumer goods Overvalued exchange rate made commodity exports artificially expensive and therefore less competitive in the international market - agricultural production and its social consequencs: agricultural production stagnated rural wages declined –migration to the cities migrants resided in urban slums increase in the size of the informal sector Exhaustion of the first stage - limited dynamism 1st stage: production stage : substitution industrialization light industries- the easy phase required little technologies most financed by domestic business 2nd stage: deepening of industrialization required more sophisticated technology and know-how domestic business (main loser) could not finance the second stage multinational corporations were invited to invest in Latin American tensions within populist multi-class coalition Inflation Erodes the purchasing power of currency Affects the poor, who can’t store their wealth in assets that do not lose their value (property) A highly organized and politically mobilized working class demands wage...
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...In his book: “Who Are We? The Challenges to America’s National Identity”, Samuel P. Huntington showed his strong worries with the American identity. According to this book, Huntington thought because of lack of common enemies and opposites, the cohesion power and common identity of American people diminished in the past twenty years. He also blamed the Latino immigrants, especially the Mexican immigrants for threatening the American political foundation with the impact on American culture and language they brought. Under this circumstance, he called on a more concrete American identity, which not only includes the “American creed”, but also embodies a core culture. Different with many people, he argued United States is fundamentally a “settler” nation rather than an “immigration” nation. And the initial settlers, White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASP), had a dominating effect on the subsequent values and direction of the country. So the Anglo-Protestantism culture, which includes Protestant work ethic and centrality of the religion to personal life, should be re-affirmed as the American core culture, and United States, which he believe ought to be a nation-state, should be built upon this base. And he implied that American government should take measures to limit Latino immigration and take Islam as a national enemy. Huntington’s view has a clear conservative and Republican color. Huntington himself probably views himself as a firm patriot, however what I read is that...
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...Bobby Thrush-Louis AMH2020 Depression and New Deal Minorities 4/14/15 At the end of the 1920s, the United States was the largest economy in the world. With the destruction brought by World War I, Europeans struggled while Americans flourished. Then, in the flash of darkness, everything went downfall. The stock market crash of 1929 was a snowball effect that put us into the worst crisis in history. But then, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sparked an idea, the New Deal, it was the set of federal programs launched by President Franklin D. Roosevelt after taking office in 1933, in response to the calamity of the Great Depression. The new deal had four major goals and achievements: Job creation, investment in public works, civic uplift, and obviously economic recovery. The new deal stabilized banks and all the financial mess from the stock market crash. One in four Americans, were out of work by 1933. The new deal created agencies that would aid jobs to millions of people and this also organized the rights for workers to organize unions. The New Deal built transportation landmarks and public landmarks that would help to bring back America. There was more positives than anything in the new deal; in addition, the new deal improved the lives of ordinary people and reshaped the public outlook. New Dealers and the men and women who worked on New Deal programs believed they were not only serving their families and communities...
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