The newspaper El Sol de Chiapas presents an interview with Óscar Barajas Velasco, teacher and researcher at the Chiapas Campus Banking and Commercial School (EBC), who has pointed out that the global crisis due to the pandemic caused by COVID-19 has had repercussions in Chiapas and sharpened the already fragile economy
According to the Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS), for the period between September 2019 and September 2020, 4,244 formal jobs were lost in Chiapas, which represents a 2% decrease in formal jobs in the entity; the city most affected was Tuxtla Gutiérrez, where the loss of 3,730 people was registered.
“Although all the states of the Mexican Republic presented a significant drop in their economic activity, what's more, Chiapas is among the three states with the least decrease in this period, the severity of Chiapas is due to the fact that it represents a long-term trend In other words, the decline in economic activity in Chiapas began several years ago and cannot be attributed solely to the COVID-19 pandemic, ”the teacher highlighted.
The researcher also pointed out that the Chiapas economy has not grown in a decade, in 2011, the state GDP was 279,447 million pesos; For the year 2017, it reached the figure of 281,883 million pesos: an accumulated growth of almost zero, of 0.87% in six years. From that we must subtract the -2.1% that the economy fell in 2018; and then wait for the INEGI's confirmation on the fall in 2019, which everything indicates will be around -0.2%. Everything before the pandemic. Then there is the -13% drop that was recorded in this second quarter.
Barajas explained that in the secondary sector, that is, manufacturing and transformation industries, the fall from 2015 to date averages -10% each quarter.
We begin to see that the case of Chiapas is desperate: neither the two mouth refinery nor the Mayan train will impact with the force necessary to lift Chiapas out of this deep economic crisis.
Although in recent months the possibility of including Chiapas in the Free Zones programs of the current administration has been discussed, and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador himself announced a few days ago his intention to also grant the southern border benefits reduction of VAT and ISR, the researcher at the Banking and Commercial School, pointed out that it is necessary to go further: “it is necessary to think about large-scale schemes, to consider Chiapas as a great global logistics and manufacturing enclave, a great fiscal zone free, with exemptions and benefits to attract investment, generate employment and stop the free fall of the state economy ”, he concluded.
Post by: Daniela Osorio
Núñez, G. (2020, November 04). Se agudiza la crisis económica en Chiapas. Retrieved November 05, 2020, from https://www.elsoldechiapas.com/nota.php?id=39439
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