La Ciudad de México y su nueva Constitución en el entorno nacional

Abstract

Demographic, social, economic and political factors are added to explain the decline of the city of Mexico as the propeller Center of national development. Between 1970 and 2014, the Federal District has been reduced from 28 to 16% in its contribution to the total of the country. The contraction in its manufacturing participation has been still major from 32 to 7% in the same years. Better results and successes have been achieved as for social politics and democratic opening on the part of initiatives of the local government. Seen in the future, the City of Mexico requires renew its role as a brain of national development, at the same time find productive vocations that renew their ability to increase income and employment, based on the absorption and diffusion of advanced technologies. In such tasks, the new Constitution can serve as indispensable incentive, provided that it is translated into programs and joint industrial policies of the local government, the Federation and neighboring States.