The World Bank and higher education in Mexico

Abstract

The World Bank (WB), an organization created in 1944 as part of the Bretton Woods agreements signed for the purpose of reorganizing the post-war international financial system, acquired particular relevance in the late seventies and early eighties, when the fiscal crisis of the Welfare State in both developed and dependent nations allowed the imposition of market-oriented structural adjustment strategies.

Structural adjustment in the economy also implied changes in different areas of the political, social and cultural life of nations such as Mexico, where WB recommendations, particularly in the field of education, were assumed as indispensable instruments to give legitimacy to structural change.