La Política Pública de Desarrollo e Inclusión Social ha sido instalada por el gobierno nacional para organizar la lucha contra la pobreza bajo un nuevo enfoque, que apoye y asegure coordinación y articulación de los organismos públicos y los privados involucrados. En esta nueva...

En este documento se realiza una evaluación de la literatura teórica y empírica sobre la relación entre los regímenes cambiarios y el desempeño macroeconómico. La principal conclusión es que la distinción entre regímenes cambiarios fijos y flexibles parece ser importante para...

This paper develops a dynamic general-equilibrium political-economy model for the optimal size and composition of public spending. An analytical solution is derived from majority voting for three government spending categories: public consumption goods and transfers (valued by households), as...

The evidence at the micro level shows, that in the booming period, the rate of growth of labor productivity of the manufacturing sector is mainly explained by the labor productivity rate of growth of formal medium and large size firms rather than for nonfarm informal microenterprises of the...

Within the context of significant economic and educational changes, the objective of this paper is to investigate tendencies since the 1980s in the allocation of children’s time between school and work in Mexico and Peru. As measured by school enrollment rates, which have been rising in both...

El propósito principal de este documento es presentar alternativas a la UMC para su trabajo futuro desde el Ministerio y/o con otras instancias. Para ello, en este primer capítulo se hace un balance de las tendencias o alternativas de orientación de las evaluaciones nacionales e...

This paper takes a macro and micro levels of analysis with the purpose to understand the dynamic of labor productivity in Peru throughout period 1997-2007 wherein two sub-periods are identified: a deceleration or ‘recession’ period, 1997-2001 of slow GDP economic growth and decreasing terms...

The Great Recession is the manifestation of some fundamental problems in the real sector of the global economy, related basically to the loss of competitiveness of the U.S. and other central economies reflected in continuous external disequilibria in the form of parallel current account deficits...