By KELIN DILLON More than a million businesses in Mexico, or one in five, were forced to permanently shutter their doors due to effects of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic, reported Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi). Of the 4.86 million businesses registered in the Inegi’s 2019 economic census, an estimated 3.85 million survived, while 1 million-odd businesses closed
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Two former U.S. envoys outline an effective approach
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By KELIN DILLON The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in many casualties around the globe, and healthcare personnel, particularly in Mexico, have unfortunately been no exception. Back in September, Amnesty International released a report revealing that Mexico had a higher number of healthcare workers die from covid-related issues than any other country in the world. As of Dec. 21, 2,330 medical
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By KELIN DILLON Job losses in Mexico will reportedly reach high figures this December amid the global coronavirus crisis. Reported figures say an additional 300,000 jobs could be lost in Mexico before the end of the year. However, since there were less new hirings in 2020 than 2019 due to the covid pandemic, there will subsequently be fewer jobs lost
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XINHUA Mexico’s economically active population (EAP) dwindled by 3.6 million people in the third quarter of 2020, mainly due to the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on the services sector, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) said on Tuesday, Nov. 17. According to the agency’s National Occupation and Employment Survey (ENOE), Mexico’s EAP registered less than 53.8 million
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Corporate-Worker Relations
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XINHUA Mexico is seeing a slow recovery in employment levels after the gradual reopening of businesses that were closed due to the novel coronavirus (covid-19) pandemic, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) reported on Wednesday, Oct. 22. Unemployment rates among Mexico’s Economically Active Population (EAP) fell to 5.1 percent in September, from the 5.2 percent that was recorded
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico
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XINHUA The coronavirus pandemic and its fallout will likely push 47 million more women into poverty, reversing decades of progress to eradicate extreme poverty, new data released by the United Nations on Wednesday, Sept. 2, revealed. The study, commissioned by UN Women and the UN Development Program (UNDP), points to a 9.1 percent increase in the poverty rate for women.
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By EARL ANTHONY WAYNE, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico and former U.S. deputy ambassador to Afghanistan
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