El capítulo pretende perfilar un marco referencial que sea útil al Perú para las próximas décadas. Se ha dividido en cuatro partes: análisis somero de la evolución del PBI, previsiones económicas realizadas por terceros al 2050, análisis de los principales temas que impactarían el...

El presente ensayo tiene por objetivo presentar algunos escenarios futuros en torno a los posibles impactos del cambio climático, el fenómeno del Niño (FEN) y la disponibilidad del recurso hídrico en la economía del país, sobre la base de la información disponible, con la finalidad de...

Un grupo de investigadores especialistas en distintas áreas del conocimiento se reúne para imaginar los próximos cincuenta años. Se plantean el reto de pensar qué país encontraría un peruano que, tras un prolongado sueño, despertará en el año 2062. Proyectar escenarios futuros implica,...

The study is undertaken in four sample villages of the two sample districts in Jharkhand state, namely, Ranchi and Dumka to track the changes in rural poverty in eastern states of India. The data pertains to these two representative districts, one representing socioeconomically developed...

Research and Science Today Journal is a publication founded in 2011 and it is dedicated to the students of all levels (license, master and doctoral) of faculties in the country and abroad. We want to offer the participants the opportunity to present their scientific works in the following areas:...

The 2011 Human Development Report argues that the urgent global challenges of sustainability and equity must be addressed together – and identifies policies on the national and global level that could spur mutually reinforcing progress towards these interlinked goals. Bold action is needed on...

The belief that elections reduce rent seeking by government officials is widely held, likewise the belief that rent seeking decreases as elections are less subject to corruption. In this paper we develop and test a model in which these beliefs are carefully examined. Our model indicates that,...

Using a sample of rural Chines villages which have recently been the subject of democratic reforms we look for the relationship between marginal changes in the democratic process and marginal changes in economic outcomes. We find that even very poorly conducted elections can have large incentive...

The new century opened with an unprecedented declaration of solidarity and determination to rid the world of poverty. In 2000 the UN Millennium Declaration, adopted at the largest-ever gathering of heads of state, committed countries — rich and poor — to doing all they can to eradicate...

Accommodating people’s growing demands for their inclusion in society, for respect of their ethnicity, religion, and language, takes more than democracy and equitable growth. Also needed are multicultural policies that recognize differences, champion diversity and promote cultural freedoms, so...