El impulso a la formación del personal técnico para la industria mexicana: las aportaciones de Gonzalo Robles y Manuel Bravo Jiménez, 1945-1960

This paper seeks to reconstruct Gonzalo Robles and Manuel Bravo’s contributions in the training of technical personnel during 1945-1960, a period known as the “Mexican miracle,” when growth was based on industrial development. The dynamics of the industrial process encountered several obstacles, such as the lack of technical staff and the continuous training of the existing personnel, among others. As a result, Robles and Bravo undertook, from the Department of Industrial Research at Banco de México (central bank of Mexico), a series of research and strategies both to understand the structure of the employed technical staff and the recommendations to be made as part of national economic planning efforts.