So why did such risks still materialise in the end? Part of the answer was the insufficient policy traction with the authorities that were competent to heed such warnings.
At the current juncture, the Mexican economy is facing a deceleration of economic activity, a rapid although expected to decline rate of price growth, and a situation of higher-than-usual uncertainty deriving from a number of factors, of both domestic and external origins, with the normalization of monetary policy in the United States, the renegotiation of NAFTA and presidential elections in 2018, among them.