OECD territorial reviews. Mexico City.

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The OECD Territorial Review of Mexico City highlights the region's great potential for further growth, which is linked to the concentration of headquarters, educational establishments and research facilities, as well as high levels of FDI and rich cultural resources. However, it also reveals that this growth is constrained by low levels of human capital, inadequate infrastructure and widespread, acute poverty. The current governance framework, characterised by modest co-operation, also remains a sticking point for the region's development.  Read more... Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Assessment and Recommendations -- Chapter 1. Profile of the Metropolitan -- Demographic and spatial expansion -- Mexico City's competitiveness in an international context -- Transition in the economy -- Processes of exclusion and inequality -- Chapter 2. Governance: Managing the Metropolitan Region -- Functional economic areas -- Institutional framework and existing co-ordination mechanisms -- Regional co-ordinating and planning institutions -- Trusts and other co-ordinating mechanisms -- Federal planning mechanisms and sectoral programmes -- Summing up: the need for a comprehensive metropolitan approach -- Fiscal relations across levels of government -- Towards a stronger metropolitan focus: options and limitations -- 1. A politically agreed commitment to the metropolitan concept -- 2. Creating fiscal mechanisms to promote co-operation -- 3. Establishing a metropolitan co-ordination and development agency -- Chapter 3. Fostering Competitiveness: Priorities for the Metropolitan Region -- Mexico City's competitiveness in a global framework -- Metropolitan priorities for action -- 1. Business development: bridging the technology gap -- 2. Upgrading skills and matching new labour demand -- 3. Urban regeneration: the historical district and tourism -- Integrating social policies into a metropolitan approach -- Bibliography.