On March 25, the Financial Empowerment and Inclusion Policies Wing in Mexico brought forward three defining certainties at the Senate of the Republic. These statements were clear, grounded, and urgent calls to action—as binding commitments to reshape growth, equity, and responsibility. 

 

The forum was about reframing the conversation —moving from acknowledgment to accountability, from awareness to action. Above all, it was a call to recognise that the future of Mexico’s economy cannot be built without fully recognising, valuing, and investing in the systems of care that sustain it every day. The conference provided moments of clarity and momentum of collective action on the future of an economic model that includes the subject of care at its core, and addresses the invisible and unrecognised costs of growth. 

 

First recognition involves seeing the care economy as infrastructure. Care work serves as the invisible yet indispensable foundation upon which all productive activity is built. Every business, every institution, and every economic system depends on it—whether acknowledged or not. Therefore, without care work, there is no workforce; without a workforce, there is no productivity; and without productivity, there is no economy. Recognising this means elevating the care economy to its rightful place as socio-economic infrastructure, ensuring it is valued, measured, and funded with the same budgetary seriousness as roads, energy, and telecommunications.