Country Strategy

Together, IDB staff and Mexico determine how Mexico’s priorities coincide with the Bank’s development strategies for the region. The product of that process is the IDB country strategy with Mexico, containing the Bank’s expected program for Mexico through 2012.

Country strategies include an overview of the country’s current economic situation. They draw on analytical work conducted by the Bank and other parties on a wide range of economic and social sectors, such as rural and urban development, health, education, government modernization, transportation, trade, and the environment, among others.

Mexico’s Operational Strategy (2010-2012)

The Bank’s country strategy with Mexico (BCS-ME) will span the last two years of President Felipe Calderon’s administration and will serve as a transition to a new strategy that will guide the Bank’s relationship with Mexico from 2013 onward. As such, the strategy comprises a two-pronged action plan, to address the challenges of improving medium- and long-term economic growth and those of the current economic climate. Moreover, separate and apart from the country’s financing requirements, demand for technical assistance will remain high, so the knowledge agenda will be an important part of the Bank’s work over the course of this strategy period.

Accordingly, the BCS-ME will have four areas of major focus encompassing 10 priority sectors in which the Bank has broad experience and can add value to the government’s program: (1) in the social area, the strategy will support improvements in the design and efficiency of social protection programs targeting the poor population; improved quality of, and access to, education and more years of schooling; and improved placement in labor markets; (2) in the productive area, it will target sectors with great impact on the real economy, through investments in water and sanitation and transportation infrastructure; access to financing in the housing and MSME sectors; and greater productivity in the agriculture sector; (3) strengthening of public finance at the federal, state, and municipal levels; and (4) support for the climate change adaptation and mitigation agenda at both the federal and subnational levels.