The main purpose of this paper is to evaluate empirically the economic relation between Lima and some departments of the country by estirnating the effect of shocks affecting Lima's growth over the rates of growth of the remaining departments. We do not pretend to describe the mechanisms of...

The main objective of this research is to identify the variables that affect the Peruvian Microfinance Institutions' (MFI) delinquency. The relative irnportance of three kinds of variables is analyzed. First, aggregate or macroeconomic variables related to Peruvian economic activity (GDP,in...

Nuestra propuesta es distinguir entre tres tipos de escasez: la absoluta, la relativa y la comparativa. De esta manera asociamos la escasez a los tres aspectos o procesos de la economía: la producción, el intercambio y la distribución. A lo largo del siglo XX, en la teoría económica, el...

In this paper we present one of the origins of what is being called today: the “struggle against poverty”. We extract some of the main aspects of the proposal entitled The Concept of Poverty presented by the Chamber of Commerce of the USA in 1965. Our main point is that the nature of the...

En este ensayo, nuestra intención es presentar diversas percepciones e interrogantes sobre el capitalismo en el Perú y extraer algunas consecuencias de política general que se podrían derivar de ellas.