This paper studies the minimum wages' impact in the Peruvian economy through causality tests with time series available. It finds that minimum wages have lost all importance in the labor market both in a “populist“ government ...

This article examines the hypothesis that the real exchange rate's appreciation in Peru and the export revenues related to the production of coca were strongly associated between 1985- 1990. This theory is based on the ...

This document contains the Proposed Constitution that congressman Enrique Chirinos Soto presented to the Constitutional Congress. It is not an alternative Constitution. Its aim is not to change the views of congressional ...

In this essay the author seeks to examine political development in Peru since the late 1980's, especially since Alberto Fujimori's election as the president of Peru. It focuses on the breakdown of the Peruvian political ...

Under anarchy, uncoordinated competitive theft by “roving bandits“ destroys the incentive to invest and produce, leaving little to be gamed by either the population or the bandits. Both would be better off if a bandit sets ...

The author addresses the problem of determining the scale of the coca economy in Peru and its effects on the environment and inter-regional migration. To do so, he bases his findings on information from the last population ...

Small companies are successful to the extent that they know how to coordinate the factors that have a bearing on the achievement of their goals. By studying ten cases in depth, it was possible to establish that the overriding ...

The political processes of Peru and Italy share similar trails: the currently irrelevant old political groups that held sway for most of the century in Peru and the collapse of Italy's 'partltocracy'. The emerging of a ...

The reason for understanding the evolution of the real exchange rate lies in the central importance of this variable to the country's development, especially in the growth of the tradable sector.This research analyzes the ...

The article looks at three central points of discussion to do with the importance of technology in productive and business development in Latina America and the Caribbean. In the first section, the author attempts to sketch ...