Keywords
Mexico city
neoclassical theory
economic growth
human development
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Abstract
Mexico city is no longer the dominant pole that boosted social and economic polarization. According to the dualist thesis, over the longer run a dominant pole can exert a spread effect. The Federal District keeps the highest development indicators, but it has the lowest growth in Mexico. Although neoclassical growth theory can justify this trend, international comparisons show that the economic and human development indicators in Mexico city have fallen behind; moreover the parametric analysis does not find evidence that the city has exerted a spread effect on the national territory in the last decades.
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