Central issues like a suitable institutional context that allows the market to function and the political consolidation of the reforms are discussed in this article. A free market con tributes towards economic growth. For ...

The article focuses on the work of the United Nations in the light of what its Charter states in relation to international security and peace, and development. On the first point, the author mentions issues like military-backed ...

Owing to the impossibility of explaining the abrupt changes in the Peruvian economy, especially since 1968, using traditional variables (physical capital and workforce), this piece attempts to do so by applying fresh ones ...

The author delves into the factors influencing health services demand. An empirical analysis was conducted based on regression models with dichotomous variables on a sample group of 4,540 children. The main questions the ...

There is not serious conflict, in principle, between economic growth and equality. The paper arrives to this conclusion after addressing topics like the effects of inflation on growth and economic efficiency, the key ...

Designing adequate social policy involves “bearing in mind“ a theoretical reference framework that enables it to work in practice. The aim of this article is to air a number of ideas on the subject, with an emphasis on the ...

This article looks into the connection between political liberties and economic development. The author reviews the arguments of several studies on the subject and concludes that more political liberties are not necessarily ...

The author discusses the impact of expectations on the “style of theorizing about macroeconomics“. He states that one might almost say that the style associated with Keynes and his General Theory had ended. Static models ...

This article studies the relationship between political violence and liberal principles in Peru during the first decades of Republican government, 1827-1845. The logic of behavior of caudillos was immersed in a discourse ...

The urgent need to achieve greater economic growth in the short term has overshadowed the importance of social policy to sustaining that growth in the long run. And, on the flip side, narrow views, thankfully overcome, ...