The leading economies are mostly advanced economies whose greatest advantages include investment in innovation, development, and technology.

Mexico would need to address two factors to attract domestic investment while it resolves the global uncertainty surrounding tariffs: opening an agenda to boost innovation and reducing the prevailing physical insecurity for individuals and businesses, according to Maggie Switek, senior research director at the U.S. think tank Milken Institute.

He explained that, unlike in Mexico, domestic productive investments in Brazil are the same proportion as those originating abroad. It would be important for Mexico to find mechanisms and strategies to attract domestic capital as well, he noted.

"Mexico is an advanced enough economy to not depend solely on foreign capital. They can develop their domestic capital and incentivize local investors," he said.

Interviewed by El Economista , she commented that the factors that could be discouraging domestic investment are found in public governance, where, for some time now, insecurity and, more recently, reforms to the judiciary and respect for the rule of law stand out.

Resolving these details would provide a kind of breathing space for the country while the uncertainty surrounding the tariff trade policies being promoted by the United States is resolved, he stressed.

"If foreign investors are coming, I see no reason why local investors shouldn't settle in Mexico."

The expert observed that investors respond to economic incentives, and the more growth opportunities a country offers, the more capital will flow.

The Milken Institute recently released its 2025 Global Opportunity Index, highlighting Mexico as the fourth most attractive investment destination in Latin America, behind Chile, Uruguay, and Costa Rica.

COMMERCIAL PERCEPTION AND ECONOMIC FRAMEWORK

This identification was made based on five categories: business perception of trade, financial services, international standards and policies, economic foundations, and institutional framework.

According to Mexico's results in these five categories, the highest scores are in business perception of the commercial aspect, compliance with international policies and regulations, and economic fundamentals.

The lowest points are financial services and institutional landscape.

Switek noted that the region's leaders in the index stand out because they have had a more open labor market than Mexico's for longer. That is, their perception of trade and financial services is much more mature than Mexico's.

This means there are more areas of opportunity in Mexico that will allow it to move forward.

ADVANCED ECONOMIES, WORLD LEADERS

In global metrics, Mexico ranks 62nd, just above countries like Jamaica, Brazil, and Colombia.

The world leaders, according to Switek, are the advanced economies, particularly the Scandinavian ones: Finland, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States.

The leading economies, the expert explained, are mostly advanced economies that have among their greatest advantages investment in innovation, development, and technology.