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 ...

Between 2004 and 2009, 63% of emergencies that took place in Peru were caused by natural-related events and generated a negative impact on the incomes and/or assets of households affected. Not withstanding, there are ...

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 ...

This article explains the current relevance and political weight of the Presidencyof the Council of Ministers (PCM), in contrast with two recent periodsin Peru’s politics; and produces evidence that demonstrates a new ...

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 ...

This study utilizes regression discontinuity to examine the long-run impacts of the mita, an extensive forced mining labor system in effect in Peru and Bolivia between 1573 and 1812. Results indicate that a mita effect ...

Exploring the reception of Mexican oil expropriation, in 1938, by South American diplomacy and public opinion, is the aim of this essay. Propaganda, diffusion and reception of the Mexican oil matter at the expropriation ...

In this paper, I discuss the central processes that have taken place in Mexican mining in the past two decades. In the international context of expanding markets and a boom in metal prices, the Mexican state, like others ...

El impacto de la explotación minera en las ciudades peruanas ha tenido diferentes consecuencias urbanas a lo largo de la historia. De las ciudades mineras coloniales hemos pasado al modelo de ciudad industrial o ciudad ...

This paper explores the reorganization of security and coercive power in Peru in response to the needs of foreign owned mining companies in an environment of social protest and opposition. It begins with an analytical ...