Explores how remittances, pensions and health care provided by Padomi, an office with the social security system, may affect the income security and well-being of old people in Peru. The demographic transition is moderate ...

In recent years, public debt management strategies have been applied in emerging markets so as to reduce debt exposure to financial risks and thereby to adverse external shocks. In Peru, towards the end of March 2003, a ...

During the last forty years, economics of innovation has emerged as a distinct area of enquiry at the cross roads of the economics of growth, industrial organization, regional economics and the theory of the firm. It has ...

Este trabajo evalúa la efectividad de los gobiernos latinoamericanos para atraer la inversión extranjera directa (IED) a través de la política comercial, específicamente por medio de la firma de acuerdos de libre comercio ...

In this paper, we consider the two main causation mechanisms characterizing Marxian theory: the one running from productive forces to relations of production (Marx I) and the other moving in the opposite direction (Marx ...

More than most Latin American countries in recent times, Peru has seen party voting strength, organisation and loyalties eroded. Since the Fujimori period, however – when parties found themselves under systematic attack – ...

The average growth of Peru GDP reached 6 per cent during the 2001-2007 period. However this growth was not in parallel with the microeconomic wellbeing. During this years, the poverty rate decreased 2.7 percentage points ...