ABSTRACT
Even before the earthquake of September, 1985, Mexico had, fallen into noncompliance with the IMF-approved program on a number of counts. Later investigators-foreigners like Singer and Wilkie and a whole host of Mexicans themselves--have helped to keep the debate going, or, more exactly, have contributed data and interpretation to fuel a controversy generated by the objective conditions of Mexican development. As the foregoing circumstances hint, personal income distribution is a complexly determined phenomenon, extraordinarily so in an economy characterized by the extent of interventionism that Mexico works with. In Mexico the issue has, apart from the role of agriculture, focused mostly on the strategy to be employed in respect of industrial development. Technology policy incorporated new regulations on and the monitoring of technology transfers, and an unprecedented strong effort, for Mexico, was begun to build up scientific and engineering capabilities and was enlisted as never before in pursuit of the paramount objective.
