This book represents the first comprehensive effort to analyze informal finance in Peru. We gathered data from a survey designed to capture formal and non-formal credit and savings transactions. We surveyed rural households, urban micro entrepreneurs, and wholesalers from three regions: Junin,...

Too Close to Home is a collection of essays by international authorities ranging from psychologists and doctors to economists and communication experts. Several authors analyze the economic and health costs imposed by domestic violence, documenting that domestic violence is both a serious public...

La economía peruana creció sostenida y establemente desde los años cincuenta hasta mediados de los años setenta; a partir de entonces tuvo un decaimiento que duró hasta fines de los años ochenta, época en la cual el PBI por persona decayó a niveles del año sesenta. Una de las principales...

Dado que el desarrollo humano es un proceso complejo que tiene múltiples componentes y determinantes, es necesario tener indicadores multidimensionales tales como la Matriz de Capacidades y Desempeños (MCD) y el Algoritmo del Desarrollo Humano (ADH). El MCD está compuesto de vectores de...

Too Close to Home is a collection of essays by international authorities ranging from psychologists and doctors to economists and communication experts. Several authors analyze the economic and health costs imposed by domestic violence, documenting that domestic violence is both a serious public...

Impactos y respuestas de política económica en el Perú.

This is a paper on the Regional Convergente 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 empirical...

The shaping of a center-periphery system depends on several 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 either liberal...