One year has passed since the presentation and implementation of Plan Mexico, as a government strategy with the collaboration of the private sector, to promote economic development, with the intention and goal of positioning the country within the ten global economies.
The plan consists of generating one and a half million jobs in manufacturing and strategic sectors, maintaining investment above 25% of the Gross Domestic Product, increasing national content in value chains by fifteen percent and reducing working poverty to below 20.5%.
It focuses on strengthening the internal market, reducing unnecessary imports, attracting investments and promoting shared prosperity; however, one year after its implementation, progress is observed, but also setbacks in growth and employment according to official data and independent analysis.
The achievements must be considered the attraction of foreign direct investments for around 34 billion dollars, which represents an increase of more than ten percent annually compared to the previous period, the registration of 1,661 projects from the portfolio called shared prosperity that contemplate an estimated investment of 270 billion dollars and the announcements of projects by 25 international companies for 69 billion dollars.
Of the 15 development centers announced, nine already have an official declaration published and four have already started works, Guanajuato, Michoacán, Hidalgo and Tlaxcala. The program for MSMEs and national content “Training for the Future” had two thousand three hundred registrations of microentrepreneurs in online courses and the “Made in Mexico” brand had more than two thousand authorizations for around four thousand national products.
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Lights and shadows one year after the launch of Plan México
Despite these advances, the plan has not met several of its goals, it was not able to become one of the top ten economies in the world, we are still in 13th place, the Gross Domestic Product did not grow either and the expectations for this year are not the best according to the International Monetary Fund. The projection only contemplates one percent, but the contraction scenario makes it look very difficult and investment as a percentage of it fell from 24.8% to 22%, far from the promised 25%.
No formal jobs were created, in fact 2025 was a bad year in that sense, the second worst record since 2003 with a loss of 127 thousand jobs in processing industries, very far from the indicated perspective, in terms of increase in the national content in exports, barely an increase of one point six percent was achieved.
It must be considered that Mexico fell from 55th to 69th place in the IMD World Competitivennes Index due to weaknesses in government efficiency, business legislation and institutions, and stagnant labor productivity.
In an analysis of this first year of the plan, Mexico has managed to attract large investments, advance regional infrastructure and support for SMEs; however, economic contraction and the fall in formal employment represent key obstacles, complicated by factors such as uncertainty regarding legal certainty and regional gaps regarding poverty in some regions.
In order to meet the goals set out in the plan, which cannot yet be considered successful, in the best of cases in the process phase, it is necessary to strengthen the rule of law, further promote investments, reorient public spending on greater infrastructure for development and without a doubt achieve a good negotiation in the review of the T-MEC, which is of course a colossal task on which the entire economic scenario to come depends.
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