jeudi 29 octobre 2009

Mexico's GNI from 1979-2009

Date Amount Rank

2009
2008
2007
2006
2005 10,560.001 #47
2004 10,080 #53
2003 9,499.997 #52
2002 9,270.004 #52
2001 9,100 #51
2000 8,960 #48
1999 8,340 #50
1998 7,980 #53
1997 7,630 #52
1996 7,060 #52
1995 6,660 #53
1994 7,199.999 #47
1993 6,890 #46
1992 6,740 #48
1991 6,470 #52
1990 6,070 #53
1989 5,650 #54
1988 5,310 #56
1987 5,119.999 #54
1986 4,940 #55
1985 5,180 #54
1984 4,950 #54
1983 4,690 #55
1982 4,759.999 #55
1981 4,769.999 #53
1980 4,140 #55
1979 3,570 #59
1978 3,090 #64
1977 2,720.001 #70
1976 2,549.999 #70
1975 2,390 #69

Mexico’s Development Indexes

Gender Empowerment Measure of Mexico
The Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) was created by the United Nation’s Development Program (UNDP) to measure the empowerment of women in a country. It measures the inequalities in political participation and decision-making, access to professional opportunities and economic participation and decision-making, and power over economic resources based on earned income. For example, it indicates the participation of women in political and economic life and in decision-making positions such as the number of parliamentary seats and the number of professional and authoritative jobs held by women. The measure range is from .000 (lowest) to 1.000 (highest).
The first United Nations World Conference on Women was held in Mexico City in 1975; governments, civil society and United Nations bodies committed themselves to work with and for women. The year in which a woman became Presiding Officer of parliament or of one of its houses for the first time was 1994.
This table shows the GEM ranking and/or value of Mexico in the following years:

Year__GEM rank____GEM value

1992____31__________N/A
1998____37__________0.474
2005____46__________0.589
2006____39__________N/A
2007____46__________0.589
2009____39__________0.629



Mexico's Gross Domestic Product from 1979-2009

Year_ GDP($) ____Rank

1979_ 0.35 ____#124
1980_ 0.47 ____#134
1981_ 0.59 ____#136
1982_ 0.95 ____#137
1983_ 1.81 ____#135
1984_ 2.88 ____#137
1985_ 4.51 ____#140
1986_ 7.84 ____#141
1987_ 18.78 ____#137
1988_ 39.95 ____#122
1989_ 50.55 ____#120
1990_ 64.77 ____#109
1991_ 79.83 ____#98
1992_ 91.33 ____#82
1993_ 100.00 ____#76
1994_ 108.47 ____#77
1995_ 149.55 ____#50
1996_ 195.53 ____#40
1997_ 230.12 ____#41
1998_ 265.52 ____#35
1999_ 305.59 ____#38
2000_ 342.57 ____#37
2001_ 362.71 ____#39
2002_ 387.94 ____#37
2003_ 420.89 ____#36
2004_ 452.21 ____#37
2005_ 476.84 ____#37
2006_ 1.149 trillion ____#
2007_ $1.538 trillion ____#
2008_ $1.559 trillion ____#
2009_ 1459.109 ____#








MEXICO'S HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX

years 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2002 2004 2005 2007
HDI 0.694 0.739 0.758 0.768 0.786 0.814 0.802 0.821 0.829 0.854

Gunmen steal nearly 40 cars and pickups from railroad's storage lot near Mexico City




7:25 PM EDT, October 27, 2009
TOLUCA, Mexico (AP) — Mexican authorities say a band of thieves swarmed into a railroad facility and held security guards at gunpoint while making off with three dozen new automobiles and trucks from a storage lot west of the capital.

Guadalupe Huerta, spokeswoman for the state prosecutor's office, says officials do not know why the group targeted the Kansas City Southern lot where cars await transport to the U.S. and other destinations.

She says investigators are interviewing the 17 security guards who were on watch when the robbery took place early Monday morning but do not suspect them of wrongdoing. She says the guards were held captive during the robbery.

Huerta says the 37 stolen cars and pickup trucks include Mazda and Toyota models.

jeudi 8 octobre 2009

Mexico Interest Groups

An interest group is an organization that tries to influence political stand through political action, providing material resources, exchanging information and or cooperation.

The Authentic Workers Front (Frente Auténtico del Trabajo or FAT) is an independent federation of labor unions, worker owned cooperatives, farm worker and community organizations.The FATis a strong supporter of union democracy. It was created in 1960 because of the nation's labor stife of 1958-59, and now represents workers in manufacturing industries almost all over the country. It usually sides with the left-wing Patry of Democratic Revolution.
The FAT were recently granted the ability to represent sevice workers in Mexico City and transportation industry workers nationwide.
Here are the links to to their websites: http://www.ueinternational.org/SolidarityWork/fat.html (English) and http://www.fatmexico.org/ (Spanish).

The Confederation of Mexican Workers (Confederación de Trabajadores de México or CTM) is the largest and best established union in Mexico. It was created in 1936 under the rule of president Lazaro Cardenas Del Rio. Unfortunately, after the assassintation of president Alvaro Obregon, the Confederación Regional Obrera Mexicana (CROM) withdrew their support which the CTM strongly relied on because of the influence CROM had on the working class.
The CTM has now become more appealing to employers rather then workers, and is now taxted as being corrupt and conservative. This has encouraged workers to organize independent unions.
Here is the link to thier website: http://ctmorganizacion.org.mx/ (Spanish).




jeudi 1 octobre 2009

The United Mexican States Overview


The United Mexican States, usually known as “Mexico”, is a country of the North American continent. Mexico’s regime type is a federal constitution republic, and its official language is Spanish. Mexico has a total population of 111,211,789 ranking the 12th most populous country in the world. Mexico has an executive head of state with a full presidential system