This essay shows that the neoliberal adjustment program has reprimarized the Peruvian economy and has truncated the industrialization process. As a result of this adjustment, the manufacturing industry has lost its leadership and its international competitiveness and the external bottleneck has...

The series of employment and unemployment are fundamental pieces for the analysis of the effects of the economic policy on the well being of households. The divergence between which the public perceives like a problem of lack of employment and what the government affirms, that the problem is...

The most important influence of public debt payments on the Health Sector policy occurs through its impact on the budget. This paper suggests that debt payments contribute to: a) reduce the access of the poor, b) increase the inequality of access, c) the increasing vulnerability of the more...

Malaria is one of the more important public health problems in Peru and the world. Besides the human costs, that are the most important, malaria has an economic impact. This paper estimates the cost that malaria has for the peruvian society in 119.5 million of Soles in 1998, equal to 1.5 per...

The Peruvian economic growth of 1993-1995 and 1997 and the current recession allow us to see that the main limits of the neoliberal model to sustain growth in the long run are: a) the pattern of capital accumulation and the productive structure which was constructed in the last nine years; b)...

This paper develops an overview about the complex group of international simultaneous negotiations of Peru. The paper looks for a first group view vision of them. The Peruvian participation in these agreements is different in terms of compromises, because of its position in each scheme of...

This document is a guide book for the study and understanding of the balance of payments, a tool of economic analysis and policy of the external sector of every economy. Consequently, it is a first necessity to familiarize oneself with the basic concepts, methodology, theories, and the...

The main purpose of this paper is to evaluate empirically the economic relation between Lima and some departments of the country by estimating the effect of shocks affecting Lima's growth over the rates of growth of the remaining departments. We do not pretend to describe the mechanisms of...

This paper discusses about the relations between The Andean Community and the European Union, in the context of the conformation of South America Free Trade Area. Economic relations are well-differenced between the European Union and two South American blocks: Andean Community and MERCOSUR. The...

This teaching material concentrates on the influence of transportation costs, size of markets and productivity differences in the competitiveness of producers located in different places. It is a simple presentation of the approach taken by Krugman, by Button and by Richardson in their...