## Mexico: Staff Report for the 2011 Article IV Consultation

_IMF Staff Country Reports, August 8, 2011_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: August 8, 2011
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781462325429.002

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### Summary findings
- Strong fundamentals and a policy track record helped Mexico to withstand the fallout from the global crisis and aided recovery.
- The flexible exchange rate regime has helped Mexico.
- Advancing structural reforms to increase productivity and promote investment will help in increasing the growth potential.

### Policy challenges and recommendations
- Policy challenges must take due account of:
  - significant global uncertainty,
  - employment generation,
  - long-term fiscal reforms.
- The economy will benefit from rebuilding fiscal policy buffers over the medium-term.
- Advancing structural reforms to increase productivity and promote investment is recommended to raise growth potential.

### Long-term risks and challenges
- Declining oil reserves relative to GDP.
- Population aging.

### Subjects and keywords
- Subject: Banking, External debt, Financial crises, Inflation, Prices, Public debt, Real interest rates, Revenue administration
- Keywords: CR, credit growth, debt ratio, debt stock, debt-creating flow, Global, Inflation, ISCR, maturity ladder, Mexico, Mexico's sound public sector, private sector balance sheets, real GDP, sustainability framework

*International Monetary Fund. "Mexico: Staff Report for the 2011 Article IV Consultation", IMF Staff Country Reports 2011, 250 (2011).*

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