The experience of development banking in Peru: 1990-2015

This paper analyzes the experience with the state financial entities in Peru and argues that their development banking activities have decreased in importance as instruments of public policy since the structural reforms implemented in the early 1990s. Like all other state enterprises, they have since been subject to discriminatory legal regulation. The four state financial companies analyzed have objectives and goals that are not integrated with one other, duplicate their efforts, and do not take advantage of the possible synergies to be obtained; therefore, none of these institutions constitutes an effective state development bank such as exists in other countries.