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Mexico & infrastructure
● Social housing: Cheap homes and cheap loans are putting low-income families on the property ladder
● Banking: Foreign banks are seeing their gamble on Mexico repaid in lending growth
● Electricity: The power monopoly needs to diversify in order to survive - -
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Benefits of stability are ploughed back into the country
After a decade of virtual paralysis, Mexico finally has the money to start stepping up its investment in infrastructure, says Richard Lapper.
Social housing: Ownership extends to poor
Cheap homes and cheap loans are allowing low-income families to buy, says Adam Thomson.
Politics: Rivals promise the world
The presidential candidates are big on pledges, says Adam Thomson.
Economics: The US casts a long shadow
Stability is compromised by dependence on its northern neighbour, says Adam Thomson.
Housing finance: Quiet structural reform underpins home funding
The capital markets can finance a housing boom, says John Authers.
Banking: Big betters see return on stake
Huge lending growth is one way Mexico is repaying banks’ investment, says John Authers.
Retirement homes: Americans buy into luxury
US citizens are increasingly using property-fuelled riches to finance a retirement in the sun, says Adam Thomson.
Electricity: Diversification needed
The power monopoly must open up further, says Jeff Pruzan.
Remittances: Inflow of dollars helps build good roads to empty future
Money sent back by emigrants is a mixed blessing for rural Mexico, says Richard Lapper.
Energy: Oil runs out for Mexico’s biggest money-spinner
Pemex must invest more in order to survive, says Jeff Pruzan.
