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Mexico: 2017 budget cuts to keep fiscal deficit in check

The Mexican government announced over the weekend preliminary plans to make additional cuts to government spending next year. This will keep the budget deficit in check against a backdrop of much lower oil receipts. But because the fiscal squeeze next year looks like it will be smaller than this year, the drag on aggregate demand, and thus economic growth, should ease.

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