Institutional Reform and Manpower Development in Mexico

The government of Mexico is committed to educational advancement and major transformation of industrial, agricultural, and energy sectors of the economy. Agricultural success has been the most impressive. Between the 1930s and the 1960s, corn yields per hectare improved 52%, and wheat production far...

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Published in:Journal of economic issues 1983-03, Vol.17 (1), p.17-33
Main Author: Street, James H.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Agricultural development
Agricultural production
Children
Culture
Development
Economic development
Education
Formal education
Higher education
Institutional
Manpower utilization
Mexico
Population
Programs
Reforms
State universities
Subsistence farming
Technology policy
Universities
Wheat
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Summary:The government of Mexico is committed to educational advancement and major transformation of industrial, agricultural, and energy sectors of the economy. Agricultural success has been the most impressive. Between the 1930s and the 1960s, corn yields per hectare improved 52%, and wheat production fared even better, with average yield exceeding that of the US. These programs succeeded because of superior staffs schooled in genetics, microbiology, and plant pathology. While fundamental research originated in other countries, the breeding process quickly incorporated native plant stocks in order to selectively breed under Mexican environmental conditions. The US played a key role, too, helping establish research centers with close ties to international sources of new knowledge. These facilities made a full-time scientific career practical in Mexico and discouraged a brain drain. Mexico is experiencing a new technological era, and institutional reform must lead the way to further advances in other sectors of society. An overhaul of the education system will be a crucial part of that institutional reform.
ISSN:0021-3624
1946-326X
DOI:10.1080/00213624.1983.11504087