Economic reform,energy, and development: the case of Mexican manufacturing |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Program on Science, Technology, and Development, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico;2. Global Development and Environment Institute, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Tufts University, Cabot Intercultural Center, Medford, MA 02155, USA;1. Roskilde University, University Road 1, Building 23.01.063, Denmark;2. Danish Institute for International Studies, Denmark;3. University of Gothenburg, Sweden;4. University of Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique;1. School of Public Policy, Central European University, Nador u. 9, 1051, Budapest, Hungary;2. LEMMA, Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, France;1. Chemical Engineering Department, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacán 58060, Mexico;2. Chemical Engineering Department, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3122, USA;3. Institute for Chemical and Biological Researches, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Morelia, Michoacán 58060, Mexico;4. Adjunct Faculty at the Chemical and Materials Engineering Department, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |
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| Abstract: | Given increasing concern over global climate change and national security there is a burgeoning interest in examining the relationship between economic growth and energy use in developed and developing countries. More specifically, decoupling energy use per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) has fast come to be seen as in the interests of national economies and the world as a whole. Recent attention has been paid to the dramatic decreases in the energy intensity of the Chinese economy, which fell by 55% between 1975 and 1995. Do other developing economies follow similar trajectories?This paper examines the energy intensity of the Mexican economy for the period 1988–1998. Although the long-term trend in Mexican energy intensity is rising, the energy intensity of the Mexican economy began to decline in 1988. This paper explores the factors that have contributed to this reduction. Diminishing Mexican energy use per unit of GDP has been driven by significant decreases in industrial energy intensity. We show that these changes have resulted from changes in the composition of Mexican industrial structure, and technological change. |
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