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Development Policy Monitor

The ambitions and reality of Mexico’s development cooperation

by Hans-Hartwig Blomeier, Laura Philipps

Building bridges between North and South?

With the "Monitor Development Policy" series, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation aims to shed light on the role of non-traditional donors in development cooperation. This time we take a look at Mexico, which is a recipient of development assistance but has also become a donor in international development cooperation itself.

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As an integral part of North America and the northernmost country in Latin America, Mexico has always played a significant geostrategic role. It is a member of the United Nations (UN), the G20, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Organization of American States (OAS), the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the Pacific Alliance.

Mexico has been a high-profile stakeholder in international development cooperation since 1945: first as a recipient country and, over time, also as a donor country, particularly to countries in Central America and the Caribbean.

Mexico has been a member of the OECD since 1994 and holds observer status on its Development Assistance Committee (DAC). As such, Mexico is involved in international development cooperation as part of triangular cooperation with DAC members, including Germany.

Over the past few decades, Mexico has made efforts to play a facilitating role between North-South and South-South cooperation efforts.

Since the current Mexican government took office in 2018, there has been a shift in the Mexico’s political and economic priorities to focus more on domestic issues. In the short to medium term, this offers fewer opportunities for German development cooperation, as the potential areas for collaboration have diminished drastically. Particularly at the federal level in Mexico, the basis for actively pursuing international relations has all but disappeared.

There is thus a discrepancy: On the one hand, there is the ambition or potential for Mexico to build on the efforts of previous governments and play a significant role in international development cooperation. On the other, there is the political reality of the current government under President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, which represents an almost complete renunciation of this ambition.

 

Read our Monitor Development Policy „Building bridges between North and South?“ here as a PDF.

 

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About this series

The publications of the Development Policy Monitor are part of our Monitor publication series. The Monitor series deals with one main topic at a time from the perspective of KAS experts and places it in the political and social context on the basis of a few key points.