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 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 targeting of public health expenditures in Peru is analyzed in a double way. In the first part, an analysis of the actual distribution of public health expenditures, between social strata and between regions, shows that it this expenditures are distributed inequitably. Users' fees do not...

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...

El objetivo principal del trabajo es someter a prueba la existencia de diferencias de los ingresos entre los trabajadores asalariados y los autoempleados en los mercados laborales del Perú. Para este fin se utiliza la información de las encuestas de hogares de los años 2008 y 2009, y se...

An approach to progress through school is relevant since it allows us to analyze a broad range of educational levels, if a student is able to progress to the next grade, if he or she repeats the grade, or if he or she drops out of school. Our aim is to determine which are the factors associated...

The objective of this paper is to estimate interna1 rates of return of education in Peru. The methodology is based on conventional cost-benefit analysis, where income flows are calculated using “mincerian” equations. To deal with sample selection bias, estimated income equations where...

Based upon the National Survey of Households of 2008 (INEI-ENAHO, 2009), this paper estimates a set of indicators of the microenterprises of the informal sector or Peru. This set shows, on the one hand, the importance of these firms in terms of employment generation and their potential...

This paper presents a set of indicators of science, technology, innovation (SCTeI), technologic coordination (cooperation or collaboration) and use of ICT at the level (1998-2009) of Peru and firms (2004-2007). Further and based upon an enterprise model, it presents evidence of the impact of...