Overview
- Applies critical approaches to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals
- Reveals how the López Obrador administration understands development from the vision of Mexico’s “Fourth Transformation”
- Considers structural and conjunctural challenges facing Mexico vis-à-vis People-, Planet- and Peace-centred development
- Investigates why “Republican Austerity”, militarization and the ‘de-risking state’ produce unsustainable development
Part of the book series: Governance, Development, and Social Inclusion in Latin America (GDSILA)
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This book explores how and why Mexico’s approach to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) implementation with the López Obrador administration is unsustainable and non-transformative, overshadowed by his vision of Mexico’s “Fourth Transformation”. Approached as a super mantra revolving around “Republican Austerity” and “First, the poor”, it provides original analysis of structural and conjunctural challenges facing Mexico as regards People-, Planet-, and Peace-centered development. The book reveals the promise “First, the poor” is inconsistent with data on Mexico’s poverty reduction (SDG1). Despite record-high spending on social programs and unmatched coverage, the recent tendency of improvement in tackling poverty is rather ambiguous from the perspective of multidimensional poverty. The book covers access to clean energy (SDG7), resilient infrastructure and sustainable industrialization (SDG9), and safeguarding biodiversity(SDG15) by examining three megaproject case studies: the oil refinery Dos Bocas, the Interoceanic Corridor of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and the Maya Train, generating concern with the economic, environmental, and social dimensions of sustainable development. The prospects for an ‘enabling environment’ for SDG implementation are hampered by persistently high levels of homicides and impunity (SDG16). Turning Mexico’s Armed Forces into ‘first development partner of choice’ is problematized as regards their reach in infrastructure megaprojects and social welfare programs, in the overall context of the ‘de-risking state’ favoring private capital. The result, as determined by Villanueva Ulfgard, has led Mexico further astray from sustainable and transformative development.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Rebecka Villanueva Ulfgard is Associate Professor in International Studies at the Instituto Mora, Mexico City. She is an expert on Mexico and international development cooperation, Mexico’s civil society and New Multilateralism, and theories of international relations and development. She is the lead coordinator of the book series Governance, Development, and Social Inclusion in Latin America (Palgrave Macmillan).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mexico and the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Book Subtitle: Contributions and Challenges
Editors: Rebecka Villanueva Ulfgard
Series Title: Governance, Development, and Social Inclusion in Latin America
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58582-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59141-8Published: 05 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95502-2Published: 20 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58582-0Published: 03 March 2017
Series ISSN: 2569-1341
Series E-ISSN: 2569-1333
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 274
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Relations, Development Economics, Latin American Culture, Development Policy, International Economics, International Political Economy