What these examples show is that domestic efforts trump everything else in determining a country’s economic fortunes. All the opportunities that the US market presented to Mexico could not offset the consequences of policy mistakes at home, especially the failure to reverse the real appreciation of the peso’s exchange rate and the inability to extend the productivity gains achieved in a narrow range of export activities to the rest of the economy.
这些例子表明：在决定国家的经济命运时，国内努力会比其它因素起到更为重要的作用。美国市场向墨西哥提供的所有机会也抵消不了国内政策失误的后果，特别是未能扭转比索汇率的实际升值和未能将在出口活动的狭窄领域取得的生产率提高扩展到国内经济的其它领域。