The market for medicine in Mexico is dominated by the state, creating a challenging environment for drugs producers. However, space exists within the generics market to capture market share outside of the public sphere. In the more advanced segment of biosimilars, companies are looking to the insurance market to open up new market potential. Growth in the generics market has been uneven. In…
In 2007 the federal Hospital Regional de Alta Especialidad del Bajío in León, Guanajuato, became the country’s first hospital to be opened under a public-private partnership (PPP) model. Since then two other major federal PPP hospitals have been opened in Ixtapaluca, Mexico State and Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas. Several state governments have also launched their own PPPs in the sector,…
Stakeholders are seeking to expand the research and development (R&D) potential of the pharmaceutical market. Currently, clinical studies get around 10% of the overall investment portfolio in pharmaceutical companies in Mexico. According to the Mexican Association of Medicine Manufacturers, increasing investment will require the domestic R&D community as a whole to develop better processes…
Throughout the 20th century Mexico made steady progress in its efforts to establish and develop a robust fiscal regime. In 1925 Mario Pani, then-minister of finance, introduced a preliminary series of reforms to the system, and subsequently implemented a second set in 1932. The next major change came in the 1970s and 1980s, when a new tax system was pushed through by ministers of finance and…
Water is a key resource in Mexico, which makes its legal management something of a national security interest. Article 27 of the constitution establishes the country’s water ownership regime and sets out a number of legal aspects. The National Waters Law of 1992 gets its denomination from constitutional Article 27, which regulates the waters that are deemed to be national property. This…
With just over one in five beers exported around the world originating in Mexico, the country remains one of the top global producers of the brewed beverage. While the domestic beer industry points to consumer-friendly lager as the reason for its success, additional behind-the-scenes factors have also propelled Mexico’s rise among major worldwide brands. These include multinational mergers with large-scale…
The potential of Hidalgo as an industrial hub is hardly a new discovery, stemming back to the 1950s when the manufacturing city of Fray Bernardino de Sahagún in the southern municipality of Tepeapulco was founded as part of a federal government initiative to house the Mexican automotive producer National Diesel, also known as DINA, and national rail construction company Constructora Nacional de Carros…
With its existing power plants and related infrastructure and scope for further development, energy has been named as one of four strategic sectors identified by the Secretariat of Economic Development (Secretaría de Desarrollo Económico, SEDECO) as a focus for the economic development of Hidalgo. The thermoelectric plant in Tula and the hydroelectric station in Zimapán help rank the state as the…
Though its major motorway and railway infrastructure rivals any state in Mexico, Hidalgo is well aware further works are needed to fully make the most of its privileged geographical position. Improving the state’s infrastructure – in terms of roads, logistics and services – continues to be a priority, with the state now focused on creating the legal framework for funding the works that will keep…
