everything's really ok

[Brad DeLong]

>Right on, Doug. About five years ago, when I last had a sense of
>Mexican maquiladores and other EPZs, which are the driver of exports
>(plus the 1994-95 currency crash), I recall that the internal
>linkages to the rest of the economy were (aside from labour inputs)
>around 2%; i.e., 98% of inputs were foreign sourced. Where's the
>"development"?

It's bad. But it's not *that* bad...