Sostener y compartir el desarrollo: la cooperación multilateral de México en una nueva era

In her paper, Judith Arrieta suggests a mechanism for multilateral cooperation within the context of Mexico’s foreign policy. The fact that the United Nations Development Programme (unpd) has recognized Mexico as an “upper” middle income country, the need to achieve sustained economic growth that translates into actual development, the fact that Mexico is the tenth-largest financial contributor to the United Nations and that it enjoys prestige in several multilateral forums, coupled with the coming into effect on April 2011 of an International Cooperation and Development Law that paved the way for the creation of the Mexican Agency for International Cooperation and Development (Amexcid) are just some of the factors that make it clear Mexico needs to play a more proactive role in the multilateral arena, one that allows it to exploit its full potential, while closing inequality gaps at home. According to Arrieta, Mexico, with the support of Amexcid, should seek more uniform, sustainable economic development and to wield greater political influence as a medium-sized power.