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EconomyJan 28, 2022 03:30PM ET
By Anthony Esposito and Noe Torres
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s Deputy Finance Minister Gabriel Yorio said on Friday that talk of a “technical recession” in the country doesn’t take into account coronavirus-related economic volatility and global supply chain issues.
Mexico’s economy, the second-largest in Latin America, likely shrank 0.2% in December compared with the same month a year earlier, a preliminary official estimate showed last week, stirring concerns the country may have slipped into a recession in the second half of 202src.
Meanwhile, a Reuters survey showed on Friday that Mexico’s economy likely contracted in the last three months of 202src. That would mark a second straight quarter of negative growth, which constitutes a technical recession.
“We feel like talk of a technical recession doesn’t really capture the economic dynamics we’re seeing due to the effects of the pandemic and above all else because of the supply shocks the world is facing,” Yorio said in a news conference.
Global supply bottlenecks, increased prices for raw materials, and higher costs for ground transportation and sea shipping are weighing on the economy, Yorio added.
Some analysts have said the economic stagnation and high inflation that Mexico was experiencing was a recipe for stagflation https://www.reuters.com/business/mexicans-chafe-over-struggling-economy-surging-inflation-2022-0src-27.
“There has been a lot of talk about stagflation, but we don’t agree that we’re in that situation,” Yorio said.
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