Could a nearshoring bonanza similar to the
maquiladora phenomenon be a solution to the talent crunch for businesses and also help the host nations as well?
In statements to the state news agency Informacion Paraguay (IP), Ernesto Paredes, the secretary of the Consejo Nacional de las Industrias Maquiladoras (National Council of Maquiladora Industries), specified that exports had increased 10% last year due in large part to textiles, plastic products, and light auto parts (cable kits produced by five Brazilian firms for their respective parent companies, shock absorbers, and brake pads, among other items).
Cartes pinned his hopes for an economic turnaround in Paraguay on new incentives and regulations for maquiladora (assembly and manufacturing) plants; a public-private partnership scheme called the Alianza Publico Privada (APP) to develop infrastructure and create jobs; and legislation aimed at boosting youth employment.
Segun datos oficiales, la participacion de las empresas
maquiladoras dentro de las exportaciones manufactureras totales del pais es de mas de 40 por ciento.
Prior to the act, the emergence of the
maquiladoras in the 60s and their proliferation after the signing of the NAFTA agreement in 1994, which aimed to blur the commercial borders between the usa, Canada, and Mexico, had turned this area into a highly industrialized zone.
CHART 1 SAMPLE DISTRIBUTION THROUGHOUT RESEARCH SECTORS Sector Frequency Percentage Valid Accumulated Percentage Percentage Business 12 16.2 16.2 16.2 Educational 29 39.2 39.2 55.4 Government 7 9.5 9.5 64.9 Chambers 13 17.6 17.6 82.4 Consultants 13 17.6 17.6 100.0 CHART 2 CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SAMPLE OF
MAQUILADORAS IN THE ELECTRONICS SECTOR Generation Number of Main characteristics of companies Companies (8) per generation type (9) First 68 Low technology level, based on manual labor.
Como se indica en la presentacion del libro compilado por Maria Eugenia de la O, la obra busca desde una perspectiva de genero comprender cambios y continuidades sustantivas en las
maquiladoras de Mexico 40 anos despues de su arribo en la frontera norte del pais.
Wollschlager was also quick to praise INDEX (the Export Industry Association) and the Consejo Nacional de Industrias
Maquiladoras de Exportacion (CNIME).
Another important characteristic that explains the
maquiladoras demand for factors of production is the horizontal differentiation related to its demand of imported and domestic factors, defined as the transportation cost given by T* and T for the imported and domestic inputs, respectively.
In Mexico, foreign-owned in-bond plants that assemble goods for export (commonly known as
maquiladoras) have enjoyed a number of fiscal incentives since they were first introduced in the 1960s.
Without a doubt, he's the person who best knows what conditions are really like in the
maquiladoras, the assembly-line factories built in Mexico since the 1960s along the 3,000 km frontier with the United States.
