This paper aims to facilitate the understanding of the phenomena of poverty and inequality in the Peruvian society and, by extension, in other countries in Latin America through the use of the novel “Un mundo para Julius” by Alfredo Bryce Echenique with the framework proposed by the World...

This study aims to investigate the role of economic growth and inflation in explaining the prevalence of poverty in Pakistan. ARDL bound testing approach to co-integration confirms the existence of long run relationship among the variables of poverty, economic growth, inflation, investment and...

This paper aims to investigate the relationship between physical infrastructure and economic development of Pakistan. A composite index of physical infrastructure has been constructed through Principal Component Analysis. This has been done by taking into account three different dimensions of...

The objective of this paper is to take stock of the changes in the economy and in economic and social policies in Latin America in the last 30 years in which to frame the changes in poverty and inequality in the region. Thus, the main thesis of the paper argues that, beyond the improvements that...