Assessment and recommendations
I. Recent trends and short-term prospects
-The current economic cycle in perspective
-The recovery is becoming more broadly-based
-Labour market trends improve
-Disinflation continues
-Normalisation of the external position
-The short-term outlook
II. Economic policies
-Introduction
-Monetary policy and financial market developments
-Fiscal Policy
-A medium-term policy framework: PRONAFIDE 1997-261
III. Implementing structural reform: a review of progress
-Labour markets and related issues
-The new pension system
-Removing barriers to private initiative
-Regulatory and administrative reforms
-Issues and developments in the banking sector
IV. The reform of the Mexican health care system
-The provision of health care: a segmented system
-Main problems under the pre-reform system
-The reform of the health care system
-Regulatory framework and arbitration
-Assessment of current reform efforts and what needs to be done
Bibliography
Annex
-Calendar of main economic events
Statistical annex and structural indicators