Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 March 2015
Apart from Appendini (1972) for 1900, there are, so far, no Mexican regional GDP estimates for the period before 1930. The aim of this paper is to fill this gap by presenting new Mexican regional GDP per capita estimates for several benchmark years between 1895 and 1930. The paper presents the methodology and sources used to estimate the new series, compares them with the previous estimates and offers a first long-term picture of Mexican regional per capita GDPs (1895-2010).
Hasta ahora, con la excepción de Appendini (1972) para 1900, no existían estimaciones de los PIBs estatales de México para el periodo anterior a 1930. El propósito de este trabajo es llenar este vacío presentando una nueva estimación del PIBs per cápita estatales para una serie de años de referencia entre 1895 y 1930. En el trabajo se exponen la metodología y fuentes utilizadas para las estimaciones, y se comparan éstas con las estimaciones previas disponibles. Para terminar, se presenta una primera imagen de los PIBs per cápita estatales en México en el largo plazo (1895-2010).
This paper is part of the authors PhD dissertation, carried out under the supervision of Alfonso Herranz-Loncán and Marc Badia-Miró. This research has been funded by the CONACyT scholarship for PhD studies program abroad. The author also wants to acknowledge the financial support received from the Institut Ramon Llull (Generalitat de Catalunya), the research project ECO2012-39169-C03-02 financed by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, and the Xarxa de Referència d'R+D+I en Economia i Polítiques Públiques financed by the Catalan government. The author is in debt to Alfonso Herranz-Loncán and Marc Badia-Miró for their permanent support. The author also thanks the participants at the «First meeting of regional GDPs reconstruction in Latin America, 1890-2010», held at the Universidad de la República (Montevideo), as well as the participants at the «4th Southern Hemisphere Economic History Summer School», the «PhD students’ Seminar» at the University of Barcelona, and the «Seminario Permanente de Historia e Instituciones Económicas» at the Colegio de México. The author is very grateful to Graciela Márquez for her attention and multiple comments on this work during his research stay at the Colegio de Mexico. Finally, he would like to thank Sandra Kuntz and Carlos Marichal for their useful suggestions.
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