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This paper has the purpose of showing that after the first years of North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) operations, Mexico's northern border states have been benefited differentially by improving their economic integration to United States and Canada, conducting to a distinct ranking of productive capabilities within this region. It is shown that after this restructuring process, winners are not necessarily those entities with prior best economic performance. Particularly, considering the employment growth Baja California, appears as the great winner and Sonora as the loser. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, the authors analyze the recent economic evolution of micro and small size enterprises (SMSE) In Mexico. In particular since implementation of its open economy model. This paper highlights the restrictive and stimulating factors affecting the consolidation of SMSE as a real option to support economic growth, and criticizes the current financial policy of Mexican federal government by considering it insufficient to solve its problems. Finally. It is presented a proposal of economic policy in which the authors consider the main exogenous problems for developing SMSE. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]