Some Externalities Stemming from Mexico’s Urban-Regional Imbalance: The Covid’s Struggle in the Country’s Center Region
Abstract- The unbalanced growth observed around major cities and regions in Mexico stemming mostly from the neoliberal strategy implemented by Mexico in the last forty years is manifested with great intensity in the CDMX megalopolis located in the central region, the most populated of Mexico’s seven economic regions vid, Luis-Pineda, O.(Sep, 2021), which, although benefited by the economic boom of economic globalization, has inflicted enormous social and externalities to this region such as environmental costs such as air, soil pollution deterioration and myriad other socioeconomic effects on its population, generating as well a non-inclusive urban-regional development in the country, especially Mexico city´s macrocephalic growth in Mexico´s Center region, vid, Luis-Pineda, O. (feb, 2022). Worthwhile mentioning are pulmonary affectations as well as other health problems on its inhabitants due to the giant human and industrial concentration on this region, as a consequence of pollution by greenhouse gases CO2 along with others toxic air pollutants which altogether increase people’s proclivity to acquire lung cancer and various other diseases and make them more fragile vis-à-vis the pandemia. Explaining the severity of the lethality of this scourge among its major municipalities as around Mexico City’ vicinity (CDMX) in the recent past. However, the background of these externalities lies in the economic model of social exclusion concomitant to the trade liberalization and the prevailing neoliberal strategy implemented by Mexico in the last decades vis-a-vis the acquiescence of a carefree and corrupted State that has neglected its legal and social responsibility to promote growth and the generation of the social basic satisfiers for most Mexican people such as employment, health, housing, education, and social security. This paper aims at show that the ruling government throughout the last decades was unable to promote not only the production of the aforementioned social basic satisfiers, particularly, sufficient public health services throughout Mexico and particularly in this region to meet its increasing population demand. But this strategy has also produced some other externalities such as regional-urban imbalances among the studied region and the rest of regions and municipalities or urban areas in Mexico. A phenomenon which is also reflected among Mexico’s top 15 municipalities vid, Luis-Pineda, O. (sep.(a), 2021). A situation that has also undoubtedly affected the center region and contributed to exacerbating health problems such as theCOVID-19 pandemic currently affecting not only Mexico and its regions but the world over.
