Peru is experiencing a deep political and fiscal decentralization process, especially since 2002. The newly created regional governments now share power and resources with the existing municipal governments as well as with the national or central government. The national government has...

The aim of this document is to establish the relationship between fiscal policy and the level of economic activity. On the theoretical ground, this is done using a model that links fiscal policy with economic activity, mixing the contractive and/or expansionary effects of a fiscal expansion,...

This research study analyzed the patterns of time allocation, in particular, the consequences of child labor on the accumulation of schooling among children and adolescents. Conceptually, the study departed from an interdisciplinary approach. From economy, we used Becker’s theoretical...

Using the Bradford´s (2003) price method, this paper estimates the nominal external (for Peruvian export products) and internal (for Peruvian goods which compete with imports) degree of protection of the non-tariff trade barriers for a set of 20 tariffs lines of agricultural a fishing products...

Using diverse techniques and indicators, and statistics regarding the productive and export structure of Peru and two regions (Piura and Loreto), this paper estimates the 1994 set of industrial complexes of the Peruvian economy. It also identifies a set of export products (i.e., tariff lines) in...