Peru has accumulated more than five years of positive growth rates in the product, a period which has been accompanied by an expansion of credit, mainly for consumption, which is expanding at rates above those of economic ...

This paper examines the link between decentralization and local economic development and poverty alleviation. It looks at the case of Peru because of its long history of centralization, and specifically at two regions that ...

The quantity and quality of infrastructure cause positive effects over economic growth, income distribution, and other variables that measures people welfare. On the other hand, the lack of infrastructure lets the costs ...

Developing countries have been, in most cases, sceptical about the implementation of intellectual property protection (IPP) with the premise that this policy will hurt the coverage of medicines because the price of the ...

One of the main goals of the social welfare program promoted by Peronism was that the scope of the educational and sanitary service covered a largeportion of the territory, was expanded, and reached remote locations «left ...

Recent economic expansion in Peru has apparently encouraged higher education demand. Averages, however, mask strong differences between expenditure groups and a potential anti-poor bias. We build a simple theoretical model ...

Practice of textual comments has been mainly developed within the theoreticalsphere. Jorge Luis Borges, in its short story Pierre Menard, author of Quijote,reflects on the sense of the text from the perspective of the ...

This article analyses the influence of the human development (HD) approachon the agenda of Peruvian politics. It examines two human developmentpolitics applied in Peru to show how the main elements of the Amartya Sen’scapacities ...

During the 1930’s in Argentina there were two Aprist organizations mainlyencouraged by Argentinean militants. These groups, though somewhat marginalin the political arena of Argentina, sought to build a political alternative ...

Giant firms from emerging economies are increasingly becoming global players. Few studies have seriously analyzed, however, the high level of family control in these giant firms, and its economic significance. The present ...