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Mexican Technological Universities : Pursuing Reform And New Public-Private Funding Mixes In A Non University Sector, Jorge Gamaliel Arenas-Basurto

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

Although unstable funding of Mexico's public universities is a critical problem faced each year by these institutions that struggle to negotiate increments in their fiscal revenues, most public universities have still not been able to increase sizably their share of self generating revenues to mitigate, to some degree, the impact of public shortages. Different paths to financial reforms have been encouraged by Mexican authorities in order to modify the pervasive statist tradition in the funding of public universities. In the last decades, authorities have promoted funding tools aimed at modifying the incremental budgeting of most universities, encouraging them to diversify …