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This paper studies the spatial dimension of growth in Mexico over the last three decades. The literature regional economic growth has shown a decrease regional dispersion from 1970 to 1985 and as sharp increase afterwards coinciding with the trade liberalization of the Mexican economy. Using spatial econometric tools we analyze how the process of convergence/divergence has mapped spatially and whether it makes sense to talk about spatial regions in Mexico. Although the rich North/ poor South dichotomy has, overall, dominated this phenomenon, interesting patterns emerge. Namely that the distribution of growth after Mexico's post liberalization seems to be much less associated to distance to the US than initially expected.

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