Análisis

México alcanzó compromisos con 17 empresas de Estados Unidos para garantizar inversiones en generación de energía solar y eólica, informó este viernes el presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador, tras meses de fricciones con inversionistas.

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México es una economía mixta: su PIB se ubica entre los 20 países más grandes del mundo, algunas ramas industriales tienen presencia global y su fuerza de trabajo es competitiva a nivel internacional; sin embargo, su desempeño en las últimas décadas ha sido ínfimo al grado de que, después de la caída de 2020, fue uno de los países latinoamericanos con la recuperación económica más lenta. ¿Cuál es la realidad que enfrenta la economía mexicana?

After being postponed for two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Economic Forum in Davos finally took place. The central agenda of world leaders and business leaders revolved around four points, climate change, rising inflation, Russia's special military operation and how it aggravated the energy and food crisis. 

Economic sanctions deliver bigger global shocks than ever before and are easier to evade 

Not since the 1930s has an economy the size of Russia’s been placed under such a wide array of commercial restrictions as those imposed in response to its invasion of Ukraine. But in contrast to Italy and Japan in the 1930s, Russia today is a major exporter of oil, grain, and other key commodities, and the global economy is far more integrated. As a result, today’s sanctions have global economic effects far greater than anything seen before. Their magnitude should prompt reconsideration of sanctions as a powerful policy instrument with major global economic implications.

Sanctions are not the only source of turmoil in the global economy. Energy prices have been rising since last year as the economic recovery from the pandemic encountered overburdened supply chains. Global food prices rose 28 percent in 2020 and 23 percent in 2021, and they surged 17 percent this year between February and March alone. The war has also harmed Ukraine directly as fighting has closed the country’s Black Sea ports, blocking its exports of wheat, corn, sunflower oil, and other goods.