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Desigualdad, instituciones y crecimiento económico en América Latina
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2012)
Inequality, institutions and economic growth in Latin AmericaThis essay examines three recent historical approaches to the political economy of Latin America’s relative economic backwardness. All three locate the origins ...
Agua y desarrollo. El caso del Proyecto Olmos Tinajones (Lambayeque, Perú)
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Instituto de la Naturaleza, Tierra y Energía (INTE-PUCP), 2022)
Since the early twentieth century, a developmentalist
wave has attempted to mobilize both foreign aid and capital in Peru.
Agriculture has been one of the sectors intervened to promote private
investment through technological ...
The Consequences of a Grabbing Hand: Five Selected Ways in Which Corruption Affects the Economy
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2020-06-18)
This article provides a survey of the existing literature on the effects of corruption on economic growth, foreign direct investment, income inequality, human development, and natural resources sector. Both the theoretical ...
El Formativo que nunca terminó: la larga historia de estabilidad en las ocupaciones humanas de la Amazonía central
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Fondo Editorial, 2007)
Los inicios de la ocupación de la Amazonía se remontan a la transición entre el Pleistoceno y el Holoceno. Ya hacia 8500 a.p. existen indicios de ella en diversos asentamientos, tanto ribereños como del interior, a lo largo ...
Factores discrecionales y no discrecionales de la eficiencia educativa: evidencias para el caso peruano
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Departamento de Economía, 2017-05)
La presente investigación realiza un análisis de eficiencia del proceso de generación de resultados educativos («eficiencia educativa») de las escuelas peruanas de nivel primario. Específicamente, este documento se enfoca ...
Has the Gender Wage Gap been Reduced during the 'Peruvian Growth Miracle?' A Distributional Approach
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Departamento de Economía, 2017-07)
Between 2004 and 2014 the Peruvian economy experienced a noticeable growth which surpassed most of Latin American countries during that period, leading some to quote this episode as the Peruvian Growth Miracle. Yet, growth ...
Changes in spatial Inequality and residential segregation in Metropolitan Lima
(Springer, 2021)
Since the 2000s, Lima city shows important changes in its socio-spatial structure, decreasing the long-established opposition between the centre and the periphery, developing a more complex arrangement. Sustained national ...
Uso desigual del espacio recreativo público en el contexto de la COVID-19 en Lima Metropolitana
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Centro de Investigación en Geografía Aplicada, 2020-06-21)
The compulsory isolation produced by the Covid-19 pandemic has evidenced the need to be able to recreate or generate a social link, not only to enjoy physical well-being, but also mental well-being is really such: a ...
Impact of Taxes, Transfers, and Subsidies on Income Distributionand Poverty in Argentina
(Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2023-12-29)
This study evaluates the impact of direct and indirect taxes, as well as public expenditure on transfers (monetary and in-kind, economic subsidies, healthcare, and education), on income distribution and poverty in Argentina. ...