China Y Mexico

The possibilities of a country depends on the capacity of it´s industry to add value at a lower cost, develop new products and the way they do things. The competition among companies dueto globalization, makes them change to adapt, searching for new countries to produce and obtain an advantage.
The goverments of the countries play a key role in the creation ofcomparative advantages through incentives, programs and encouranging local advantages for the different industries. Companies must be able to see the incentives a government is giving and has tothink the country is reliable, goverments should make it easy for companies.
What makes a country to be atractive is: the size of the internal market and its growth, labour prices andquality, cost of transport, taxes, natural resources, the currency strenght, costs of tariffs and the culture of the society among many others.
The countries I am comparing are Mexico andChina, two huge countries with many posibilities that we are going to explore in depth. In some areas mexico presents advantages and in other disadvantages.
In the 60s Mexico had a raisingincome of international money, specially from the United States, that where investing in manufacturing industry. Today the importance in the economy of the international money invested incomapanies is still very big, but its growing at a much lower rate. This is because asia has been growing at incredible rates, and since 1992 when china definitly opened its markets, thegrowth of this country has not stopped.
The government policies applied by china seem to have been more succesful recently, and it seems as if they are more effective for atracting companiesthan the mexican policies. So, it is essential to know the comparative advantages of each country to see the future of this countries and how atractive can it be to invest in one or.