Alejandra Trejo Nieto

Alejandra Trejo Nieto
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  • PhD
  • Researcher at College of Mexico

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Introduction
Metropolitan economic development Urbanización and economic development Regional economics Input-output analysis Spatial analysis Qualitative approaches
Current institution
College of Mexico
Current position
  • Researcher
Additional affiliations
July 2011 - present
College of Mexico
Position
  • Professor and researcher
July 2011 - present
College of Mexico
Position
  • Professor and Researcher
November 2007 - June 2011
Autonomous University of Coahuila
Position
  • Professor and researcher
Education
October 2003 - July 2007
University of East Anglia
Field of study
  • Development Studies

Publications

Publications (68)
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ABSTRACTThis paper analyses the role of metropolises that occupy a secondary place in urban systems anddistinguishes between the intermediation and other strategic roles that they can play. As an empiricalapproximation to secondary cities, the paper operationalises mid-sized cities according to populationsize and evaluates the economic performance...
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En un mundo cada vez más urbanizado, las áreas metropolitanas se han convertido en el auténtico epicentro de las dinámicas económicas y sociales. Esta obra ofrece una exploración de la expansión metropolitana en el mundo y un análisis riguroso de las economías urbanas en México. A través de un análisis minucioso, el libro aborda asuntos clave, desd...
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El desarrollo regional desigual en México es un fenómeno que ha persistido a lo largo de décadas y siglos. Éste se ha caracterizado por marcadas disparidades en términos de ingresos, infraestructuras, acceso a servicios básicos y oportunidades económicas y sociales entre las regiones del país. Trayectorias y realidades del desarrollo económico regi...
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Increasing mobility needs in developing countries demand the coordination and development of robust urban transit systems. However, several factors lead to the emergence of fragile and disintegrated systems, where several subsystems work under different schemes of formality. In this context, transit travel tends to be highly multimodal, which at th...
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In many countries the growth of significant regional economic disparities has created a geography of discontent. Looking at left-behind places in less developed countries is critical because of the wider economic, social, and political consequences. One example of political discontent due to acute inequalities is the Zapatista movement in the state...
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In the 1980s, Mexico switched from a policy of import substitution to export-oriented development. From 1994, it participated in a North–South free trade agreement with the United States and Canada (North American Free Trade Agreement – NAFTA). The agreement strongly reflected the asymmetric power of the three participants, although some Mexico’s r...
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This book represents a powerful analysis of the challenges of metropolitan governance in all its messiness and complexity. It examines Latin American metropolitan governance by focusing on the issue of public service provision and comparatively examining five of the largest and most complex urban agglomerations in the region: Buenos Aires, Bogota,...
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There has been academic and policy concern about the financial capacity of administratively fragmented metropolitan areas to implement inclusive development measures and provide public services. Metropolitan public financing is problematic because there is a geographical mismatch between extended functional urban regions and administrative units. W...
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Recent turbulent world dynamics with geopolitical change and the reversal of major trends appear to be underpinning a return to protectionism as a strategic political tool. In addition to political reconfiguration at the international level, Mexico is facing internal political rearrangement in which particular visions of the national model are bein...
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Mexico’s regional disparities and national economic performance in the 1940–2013 period is measured to test the question of whether regional imbalances expand or contract with the national economy’s growth or decline, and also the question of disparities increasing or decreasing depending on the country’s stage of development. Given the recurring w...
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Desde un enfoque de gobernanza metropolitana en este trabajo examino los arreglos y organización de la provisión de transporte público en la Ciudad de México e identifico sus deficiencias en materia de coordinación, sostenibilidad financiera y cobertura. Este diagnóstico es necesario para propiciar la generación de respuestas más efectivas a los pr...
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Este ensayo reseña las tendencias generales del crecimiento económico nacional, así como distintos aspectos explicativos del mismo. Esta revisión no pretende ser exhaustiva, sino que delinea pautas tanto para el debate como para la formulación de políticas públicas. La premisa a destacar es que el desempeño económico mediocre y desequilibrado ha si...
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One of the key issues at metropolitan level is the provision of public services and this paper highlights the importance of understanding the governance of public services in the context of increasing urbanization and decentralization. This paper provides a comparative analysis on metropolitan governance in Latin America by analysing specific case...
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l presente trabajo tiene como punto de partida el foro sobre La periferia como patrimonio cultural urbano organizadopor la UNESCO y la Secretaria de Desarrollo Social (SEDESO) del Gobiernode la Ciudad de Mexico en agosto de 2016. El proposito compartido tanto del foro como del presente estudio es generar una definicion mas amplia de la predominante...
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El objetivo del artículo es analizar la estructura productiva de la región centro de México, su desempeño económico y los cambios principales en el periodo 2003-2011. A partir de una matriz regional de insumo-producto, estimada para 2003, se identifican los clusters sectoriales mediante el método de componentes principales; de los seis encontrados...
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The Central Region of Mexico became the main economic and demographic space in the country for much of the twentieth century. The regional dynamics, which had been linked almost exclusively to the trajectory and situation of the capital city of the country, in recent decades has been fed by the growth experienced by intermediate cities in the regio...
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In 2015, the United Nations approved a new international development agenda, known as the 2030 Agenda, consisting of 17 Sustainable Development Goals and 169 targets. e agenda asserts the need for targeted actions to bolster sustainable economic growth, decent employment, and industrialization in all countries. is international strategic framework...
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En el actual escenario económico dominado por una creciente globalización, la cual ha estado acompañada por un incremento relativo en la movilidad de los factores productivos, se ha puesto a debate el papel de los territorios y, particularmente, su necesidad de competir por éxito económico. En este contexto es relevante cuestionar qué motiva a que...
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In the context of globalization, competitiveness has been employed extensively as an approach to promote regional or local development. In this article, municipal development and its relation to competitiveness in a situation of increasing economic openness and integration are evaluated. The state of Tamaulipas, Mexico is analyzed due to its relati...
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Within the current economic scenario of growing globalization, which goes along with a relative increase of factor mobility, the role of territories and their tendency to compete for economic success is under debate. In this context it seems relevant to question what motivates this competence, which the mechanisms behind it are, which actors partic...
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In the context of globalization, competitiveness has been employed extensively as an approach to promote regional or local development. In this article, municipal development and its relation to competitiveness in a situation of increasing economic openness and integration are evaluated. The state of Tamaulipas, Mexico is analyzed due to its relati...
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En México existe una persistente pobreza en un importante segmento de sus habitantes, un hecho al cual se suman agudas disparidades territoriales. Aunque los estudios y las políticas públicas se han centrado de manera creciente en la pobreza extrema, las mediciones oficia- les indican que la pobreza por ingresos es más frecuente y crece de modo más...
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It discusses heterogeneity and declining effi ciency in the Mexican metropolitan system.
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En este texto se revisa la evolución reciente de las zonas metropolitanas en México. Se presentan elementos de discusión teórica y conceptual acerca de la visión económica del fenómeno metropolitano y se describe la conformación y estructuración del sistema metropolitano en México. A partir de datos de los censos económicos (1998, 2003 y 2008) y de...
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En este texto se revisa la evolución reciente de las zonas metropolitanas en México. Se presentan elementos de discusión teórica y conceptual acerca de la visión económica del fenómeno metropolitano y se describe la conformación y estructuración del sistema metropolitano en México. A partir de datos de los Censos económicos (1998, 2003 y 2008) y de...
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A partir de la segunda mitad del siglo XX en México, al igual que en numerosos países, se intensificó una relativa transformación de su estructura económica presentándose un proceso de servicialización. En cifras, el sector terciario en México ha representado en los últimos años alrededor del 65 por ciento del PIB nacional creciendo a una tasa prom...
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Este capítulo propone los espacios periurbanos como una escala de observa-ción para entender intensidades y formas específi cas de pobreza. En estos territorios, la pobreza se asocia a fenómenos particulares como la incorpora-ción desregulada de suelo a usos no agrícolas, el desigual acceso a empleos produc-tivos bien remunerados, así como las care...
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This paper presents an examination of regional concentration levelsof individual industries in the Mexican manufacturing sector and its determinants.The shifts after NAFTA are particularly weighed up. We employ state level dataof manufacturing output and employment (1988-2003). The data reveals that industrieshave become, on average, more dispersed...
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Mexico is a country whose development process has been traditionally characterised by a substantial unbalanced performance of its regions. Since the early 1980’s it carried out an intense liberalisation and export promotion programme representative of a new national development stratagem. This paper looks at the spatial patterns of Mexican manufact...
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Este artículo examina los cambios a nivel espacial del sector manufacturero mexicano. Las transformaciones ocurridas después de la liberalización comercial y el Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte (tlcan) son particularmente considerados. Empleamos información del Producto Interno Bruto (pib) manufacturero (1970-2004) en el ámbito estata...
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In an environment of growing globalization, which goes along with a relative increase of factor mobility, the role of territories and its competitiveness is under debate. In order to spur local attraction territories often enter in competition with each other. At this respect it is commonplace that governments at various territorial levels apart fr...
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As a result of the advancement of globalisation and the increasing emphasis on competitiveness as a means to get a position in a globalised economy, the territory has regained a key role as a unit for analysis and action. In the context of the globalization local and regional territories compete to attract and retain productive investment and resou...
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The existence of a solid service sector and some degree of specialisation in tertiary activities are among a number of territorial diversity of factors which need to be taken into account in relation to the creation of competitive capacities. In addition globalisation has presumably played a significant role in the productive restructuring of econo...
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Under a pervasive competitive environment is commonplace that governments at various territorial levels, in addition to other public and private institutions, concern about providing the conditions that make attractive their territories. They want to attract resources of various kinds, production and consumption in order to foster economic growth a...

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