00685nam a2200085Ia 4500100001900000245004800019260000900067520050400076583001900580  aFARMER, Edward  aInvesting in Mexico : can't stand the heat.  c1997  aDiscusses strict policies which are bringing Mexico out of fifteen years of economic chaos.  Points out that the 1994-95 crisis had its roots in the government's commitment to maintaining the peso-dollar exchange rate, a commitment that changed in December 1994 to when widespread recession followed the devaluation of the peso.  Notes that the economy is now growing at a rate of between 5 percent and 8 percent, and the government privatisation and liberalisation policies have recovered momentum.  c3/7/00kM2LMGR