The core of the paper analyses the State functionings in the process of providing basic social services (education, health, identity documents, etc.) in the provinces of Peru. The concept “Density of the State” is designed to elaborate an index (SDI) to quantify State´s territorial...

El siglo dieciocho fue uno de robusto crecimiento económico en el virreinato del Perú. Pero tanto la cronología, cuanto las raíces de este crecimiento son imprecisas. El inicio de la expansión suele ubicarse hacia el final de la gran epidemia de 1718-1723, que afectó a la población...

Los trabajos sobre la desigualdad económica en América Latina han coincidido en señalar el carácter elevado y persistente que este fenómeno tiene en el subcontinente, a la vez que han postulado su origen histórico. En consonancia con este planteamiento, proponemos en este documento que la...

This article tries to rescue the history of the mining of mercury of Huancavelica in the period of the post independence. For it we review the efforts realized put again in massive development the big mine of mercury that one day was considered to be "the jewel of the crown" Spaniard. During his...

What was, twenty five years ago, the image about Peruvian economic history during its independent period? Which are the changes in it now and which the factors of that changes? My argue is that in the period of last twenty five years, the economic history of Peru, but especially its republican...

El propósito de este trabajo es doble. Por un lado, presentamos una reflexión teórica sobre inclusión e integración para el desarrollo humano, cuyo propósito es mostrar dos niveles conceptualmente distintos de pertenencia de las personas en su sociedad, que permiten entender y ejercer su...

The shaping of a center-periphery system depends on several various economic and geographical factors that interact on a given space. Besides, the degree of openness of a country’s economy conditions the productive character of its regions. This essay explores the differential effects of...

This is a paper on the Regional Convergence Hypothesis, applied to the Peruvian case during the 1978 – 1992 period. The research considers an important element, generally neglected by studies on economic growth: the spatial organization of the economy in regions. For that purpose, the...