Mexico - Reports

1 Edition2012-132013-142014-152015-162016- 17 Rank53 / 14455 / 14861 / 14457 / 14051 / problematic factors for doing businessMexicoPerformance overviewNote: From the list of factors, respondents to the World Economic Forum's Executive Opinion Survey were asked to select the five most problematic factors for doing business in their countryand to rank them between 1 (most problematic) and 5. The score corresponds to the responses weighted according to their improves six positions to 51st place, mainly driven by gains in marketefficiency. Domestic and foreign competition in the goods market all improvesignificantly, reflecting the results of competition and trade policy markets have boosted flexibility and incentives, and financial marketshave improved affordability.

2 Primary education continues to be a significantcompetitiveness weakness compared to regional and global leaders, andcompetitiveness weakness compared to regional and global leaders, andinstitutional quality is lagging. The Mexican economy has been hit by fallingoil prices, weak global trade, and a resulting fall in industrial , it is still one of the most competitive economies in the region, andis making progress on some of the fundamental drivers of future / 138 Score (1-7)TrendDistance from bestGlobal Competitiveness A: Basic 1st pillar: 2nd pillar: 3rd pillar: Macroeconomic 4th pillar: Health and primary educationSubindex B: Efficiency 5th pillar: Higher education and 6th pillar: Goods market 7th pillar.

3 Labor market 8th pillar: Financial market 9th pillar: Technological 10th pillar: Market sizeSubindex C: Innovation and sophistication 11th pillar: business 12th pillar: Innovation12345671st pillar:Institutions2nd pillar:Infrastructure3rd pillar:Macroeconomicenvironment4th pillar:Health and primaryeducation5th pillar:Higher educationand training6th pillar:Goods marketefficiency7th pillar:Labor marketefficiency8th pillar:Financial marketdevelopment9th pillar:Technologicalreadiness10th pillar:Market size11th pillar:Businesssophistication12th pillar:InnovationMexicoLatin America and the CaribbeanSource.

4 World Economic Forum, Executive Opinion Survey and theftInefficient government bureaucracyTax ratesTax regulationsAccess to financingInadequate supply of infrastructureInadequately educated workforceRestrictive labor regulationsInsufficient capacity to innovatePolicy instabilityInflationPoor work ethic in national labor forcePoor public healthForeign currency regulationsGovernment instability06121824 Global Competitiveness Index2016-2017 editionKey Indicators, 2015 Population(millions)GDP(US$ billions)GDP per capita(US$)GDP (PPP)% world GDPM exico51 / 138stSource: International Monetary Fund; World Economic Outlook Database (April 2016) Global Competitiveness Index in detailMexicoNote: Values are on a 1-to-7 scale unless indicated otherwise.

5 Trend lines depict evolution in values since the 2012-2013 edition (or earliest edition available). For detaileddefinitions, sources, and periods, consult the interactive Country/Economy Profiles and Rankings at / 138 ValueTrendRank / 1st pillar: property of public trust in payments and in decisions of government of government of government of legal framework in settling of legal framework in challenging of government costs of costs of crime and of police behavior of of auditing and reporting of corporate of minority shareholders of investor protection0-10 (best) 2nd pillar.

6 Of overall of of railroad of port of air transport airline seat of electricity telephone subscriptions/100 lines/100 3rd pillar: Macroeconomic budget balance% national savings% % debt% credit rating0-100 (best) 4th pillar: Health and primary incidencecases/100,000 impact of incidencecases/100,000 impact of prevalence% adult impact of mortalitydeaths/1,000 live of primary education enrollment ratenet % 5th pillar: Higher education and education enrollment rategross % education enrollment rategross % of the education of math and science of management access in availability of specialized training of staff 6th pillar: Goods market of local of market of anti-monopoly of taxation on incentives to tax rate% of procedures to start a to start a policy of non-tariff tariffs% of foreign impact of rules on of customs of customer 7th pillar.

7 Labor market in labor-employer of wage and firing costsweeks of of taxation on incentives to and on professional capacity to retain capacity to attract participation in the labor forceratio to 8th pillar: Financial market services meeting business of financial through local equity of access to capital of of securities rights index0-10 (best) 9th pillar: Technological of latest technology and technology users% Internet subscriptions/100 bandwidthkb/ subscriptions/100 10th pillar: Market market size market size (PPP)PPP $ 11th pillar: business supplier supplier of cluster of competitive chain of international process of to delegate 12th pillar: for of scientific research spending on R& collaboration in R& 't procurement of advanced tech.

8 Of scientists and patent applicationsapplications/million