"Analyzes and explains failure of Peru's import substitution plan (1970-90). Discusses concerns with shift toward market liberalization beginning in Aug. 1990"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57

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...

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...

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...

Based upon a standard Crepon, Duguet and Mairesse (1998), CDM, model and data at firms’ level, this paper analyzes the interrelationship between firms’ science, technology and innovation (STI) activities and their labor productivity in Peru for the year 2004. The effects of some constraints...

This paper evaluates the impacts of quality management tools on the labor productivity of companies in Peru for the period 2014-2019 based on causal Machine Learning (ML) techniques (MLC), which reduce or eliminate three potential problems: the endogeneity of the variables of interest, the...