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Globalization and World Cities

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 20:54:04 GMT

Here's an interesting map about the "World Cities", where Mexico City is considered as a "Beta" world city*:

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/citymap.html

* According to their site, World cities are considered "a key physical manifestation of contemporary globalization".

Economic survey of Mexico 2007

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 19:26:49 GMT

The OECD has just published a new Economic Survey of Mexico. It can be found at the following address:

http://www.oecd.org/document/9/0,3343,fr_2649_34569_39412873_1_1_1_1,00.html

Also from the OECD, the 2007 Factbook provides interesting data:

http://caliban.sourceoecd.org/vl=1713287/cl=12/nw=1/rpsv/factbook_fre/

Detailed Mexican road maps

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 05:36:31 GMT

Good news on the cartographic front! Several mapping services have now included detailed road information from Mexico. Check them out...

The best one (in my opinion):

http://www.mx.map24.com/

Microsoft has also done a good job:

http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=22.451649~-98.85498&style=r&lvl=5&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&encType=1

Google is a bit disappointing this time:

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=23.5237,-97.998047&spn=20.301472,41.132813&z=5&om=1

Another report of the world in 2050

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 02:14:21 GMT

This time it is from PricewaterhouseCoopers and in a similar way to the Goldman Sachs one, it places Mexico's economy in the 7th place with respect to the GDP in PPP term by 2050:

http://www.pwc.com/extweb/ncpressrelease.nsf/docid/91A9EA1716F4712585257129000886AB

See the whole report: "The World in 2050: How big will the emerging market economies get and how can the OECD compete?"

http://www.pwc.com/Extweb/onlineforms.nsf/docid/709FC2E50D24CE518525712A00686995

See also: "The World in 2050":

http://www.pwc.com/extweb/pwcpublications.nsf/docid/56DD37D0C399661D852571410060FF8B

Mexico the 25th place in the quality of life index 2007

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 01:51:23 GMT

InternationalLiving.com rated Mexico in the 25th place (out of 195) in their 2007 quality of life index. This index takes into account several factors including infrastructure, risk & safety, weather, etc...

http://www.il-ireland.com/il/qofl07/index.php

This is a positive improvement from last year where Mexico was ranked 31st.

Mexico to become world's 5th largest economy by 2040 ?

Thu, 12 Oct 2006 01:14:01 GMT

The last economic forecast issued by Goldman Sachs for 2040 puts Brazil and Mexico among the world’s ten largest economies by that time. [...] The fifth economy would be the Mexican one, the sixth is the Russian and the seventh, the Brazilian.

http://www.nuevamayoria.com/EN/ANALISIS/fraga/lat/060928.html

This is a GS report from december 2005 where it's not in 5th but in 6th place but by 2050:

http://www2.goldmansachs.com/hkchina/insight/research/pdf/BRICs_3_12-1-05.pdf

See also:

http://www.economist.com/surveys/displaystory.cfm?story_id=E1_SRSSJVJ

(There's a PDF from the article here: http://people.brandeis.edu/~cerbil/DevF2006/EmergingAtLAst.pdf)

Don't forget to check out this blog in 34 years to find out the answer! :)

Fox's legacy and Mexico's future

Sun, 21 May 2006 18:25:08 GMT

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20051211/news_1e11grayz.html

A moneyed pact and Mexico’s future

Sun, 21 May 2006 18:11:53 GMT

Discussion about the "Pact of Chapultepec"

http://www.mexidata.info/id632.html

Was NAFTA Worth It?

Sun, 21 May 2006 17:31:48 GMT

A tale of what free trade can and cannot do

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_51/b3863008.htm

Internet Usage Statistics for the Americas

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 01:01:24 GMT

Internet User Statistics and Population Stats for 51 countries and regions
- North America, Central America, South America and the Caribbean -

http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats2.htm