Public-Private Partnerships in Mexico: Structural Corruption, Subcontracting and Indebtedness

• Main Authors: Vania López Toache, Jorge Romero Amado, María Eugenia Martínez de Ita
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad Nacional de Córdoba 2018-09-01
• Series: Actualidad Económica
• Subjects: asociaciones públicos privadas; servicios públicos; corrupción estructural; subcontratación; endeudamiento público
• Online Access: https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/acteconomica/article/view/21295

The objective of the present work is to analyze the political, social and economic impact of Public Private Associations (PPPs) in the public sector of Mexico. The research will be descriptive and documentary. The economic reforms in Mexico will be documented and described from the 1990s to the present, as well as a quantitative analysis of the types of projects and companies that dominate the PPP´s market in Mexico, data on public indebtedness and qualitative information of the most representative cases of political corruption and labor subcontracting. Among the main findings found is that investments in the public sector through these schemes have gained spaces corresponding to public functions, particularly the State perform. This political agenda of privatization has had negative consequences in Mexico, due to the multiple cases of corruption, labor subcontracting and public indebtedness.