This paper is an essay in the economy of ideas. It analyzes how informal institutions affect the enforcement of key market institutions. It argues that legal traditions, political institutions, and administrative arrangements ...

​It treats brings over of a description based on facts on the world current situation; this certainly, in very big features; some possible future scenes are outlined, in addition; then a few brief reflections come it brings ...

The Andean languages - Quechua and Aimara offers some keys to enter in the symbo/ic conceptual world of the Andes. Some semantic structures refered to the world and social praxis (pacha, yanantin, awqa, kuti, ayni, mink'a, ...

Civil-military relations are always a difficult issue to handle, and in the case of Peru they reached a particularly critic moment in the present century, in 1932 and 1948, when some naval personal, linked to the Aprista ...

In September 1997, CTE set a new distribution rate after estimating the investment value, called New Replacement Value (VNR) for power distribution utilities in Peru. This estimation is an indispensable tool to set rates ...

We simulate rates of return, administration fees and market shares for the five private pension fund managers that constitute the Peruvian AFP industry. After five years of operation and payment of costs related to the ...

This paper is a contribution to the improvement of the social expenditure's focalization agenda. It focuses in government expenditures programs against poverty. To efficiently reach the goals, these programs must be included ...

The objective of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) is to unite the thirty four economies of the Hemisphere into a single market. The negotiations are supposed to be completed by the year 2005. Though year 2000 is ...

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) was established in 1989 in response to the growing interdependence among Asia-Pacific economies. APEC begun as an informal dialogue group, however, it has become the primary regional ...

The credit market is a typical one where the problem of asymmetric information exists. This raise two problems: one drawn by the impossibility to control all the borrowers' actions that could affect their capacity (insolvency ...