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Suffering from the economic crisis and development dilemma
in the beginning of 1980, the president of Mexico, De la Madrid,
implemented a series of economic reforms on the basis of
Neoliberalistic economic thoughts since 1985. And the successor
president Salinas adopted the export orientation strategy and
started the way of economic liberalization from now on. In
order to practise the liberalized policy, the Mexican government
on the one hand, stabilized macroeconomic environment and
improved domestic investment environment; on the other hand,
revised the foreign investment law and welcomed the foreign
investor to participate in every industry in the country.
During the decade, Mexico has reached very significant
achievement in macroeconomic reforms or in foreign investment
since 1985. Especially, the establishment of North American
Free Trade Zone in 1994, mobilizing the human resources, natural
resources, modernized technology and capital among the three
member nations, helped increase the foreign direct investment
(FDI) in Mexico and also opened another window for Mexico to
proceed into international market. Foreign direct
investment, accompanying with the rising of multinational
enterprisers becomes the main power of economic development. For
host country, it is not only the supplier of capital sources,
but also the introducer of tangible or intangible assets such as
technology, marketing strategies and methods ofmanagement, etc.
The main purpose of this thesis is to analyze the
characteristics of the structural change of FDI during these
years in Mexico, especially the role of FDI in sectoral dynamic
change and in the process of being integrated into the
international industrial order. In addition, it also analyzes
how the multinational enterprises impact the Mexican industrial
structure and how to promote international competitiveness in
the outward orientation strategy and how to increase employment
opportunities to help the economic development in Mexico.
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