An evaluation of the social development of Peru at year 2000 shows that there have been improvements in several areas, such as the coverage of basic health services, but that little has been accomplished in poverty reduction and the quality of education remains poor. Economic policies haven't...

This is a comparative study of the price of telephone services in Peru and several other countries most of them with similar characteristics. We conclude that the price of that service in Peru is one of among the highest.

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 paper is a balance of the Peruvian economic policies, taken by government in the last decade. We focus on determining, based on the available literature, whether or not this polices have improved the economic well-being of poor people. Furthermore, this balance allows us to give the agenda...

The objective of this paper is to show the most important aspects of the Peruvian Health System Reform, discussing its advantages and disadvantages in comparison to the Chilean Health Reform, the earliest in the region. The discussion focuses on some aspects such as equity of the system,...

Peru is experiencing a deep political and fiscal decentralization process, especially since 2002. The newly created regional governments now share power and resources with the existing municipal governments as well as with the national or central government. The national government has...

One goal of this paper is to discussing the macroeconomic impact that an internacional commodity prices boom has in a small open economy under perfect capital mobility. A Mundell-Fleming model with some adaptations is used for the analysis of this real external shock. There are two effects: the...

This article reviews the treatment of the concept of variables in empirical research in economics. It incorporates ideas from other quantitative areas, and are arranged in a conceptual framework. We present a taxonomy of the variables and discusses methodological issues that arise from it. We...

We analyze three concepts of market competition. Although in each one of them one can appreciate the different aspects of freedom, they also contribute specially to some of them. We propose that the "neoclassical general equilibrium" mainly contributes to the discussion of the outcomes of an...