Resolving the Debt Crisis

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Mexico's Economy Current Prospects and History

Course (51 videos)

An Overview of the Mexican Economy
Achievements
Challenges & prospects for reform

Colonial Legacies: Obstacles to Growth after Independence
A reversal of fortune
Colonial Transportation Part I
Colonial Transportation Part II
Political Instability After Independence
The Economic Effects of the War of Independence
Transportation & Infrastructure in the 19th century
Slow Financial Development in Early Mexico
Law and Economic Development in Early Mexico

Development Strategies
State-led development: an overview from 1917-1982
Commodity Driven Growth before the 1930s
Turning Inward: Industrial Policy after the Great Depression
Labor Unions and the PRI until democratization
What is a maquiladora?
An overview of Pemex
The problems of Pemex
Pemex’s poor performance

Social Issues
Fertility and Demographic Change in Mexico
Is There A Height Premium in Mexico?
Conditional Cash Transfers
Migration and its Wage Effects in the US
Migration and Remittances
Economics of the Drug War
Finance, Law, & Trust (Mexico)
Education Quality in Mexico
Education Inequality in Mexico
Why is Teaching Quality so Low?

Land & Agriculture
Land Reform in an Authoritarian State
The Economic Life of the Tortilla
A Tomato Border Crossing
Watermelon Scale Economies

The Debt Crisis of the 1980s
External Factors of the Debt Crisis
Domestic Factors of the Debt Crisis
Resolving the Debt Crisis

The State Retreats: Reform in the 1980s & 1990s
External Factors Behind Reform
Privatization Part 1a: The State Loosens Its Grip
Privatization Part 1b: Charges of Cronyism and Corruption
Privatization 2: Dealing with the Opposition
Privatization 3: Results

The Peso Crisis
The Mexican Miracle? The Lead-Up to the Tequila Crisis
Tequila crisis

NAFTA & the Mexican Economy
An Introduction to NAFTA
The effects of NAFTA on the Mexican economy
NAFTA and Mexican Agriculture
FDI & NAFTA

Modern Mexico
Mexico & the Brics
Is Mexico the new China?
La Reconquista: Mexican direct investment in the US
Mexico as an open economy
Mexico and the 2008 Global Financial Crisis

Resolving the Debt Crisis

Instructor: Robin Grier, University of Oklahoma

 

The debt crisis officially started when the Mexican government declared that it couldn’t pay back its external creditors.  The crisis ended up involving scores of countries and large international banks. It took the rest of the decade to figure out how to solve the problem.

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