Publications
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Mexican agriculture in a economy-wide policy: latitude for special treatment
The paper analyzes the role of the agricultural sector in the process of liberalization of the Mexican economy.
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La agricultura peruana en el contexto internacional
The purpose of this document is to present a first overview of how the international economic environment has affected the way the Peruvian agricultural sector operates. The first section presents in a very schematic way how international markets have historically linked the agricultural policies of developed and underdeveloped countries. Then, in the second section, the […]
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Gestión pública y distribución de ingresos: tres estudios de caso para la economía peruana
This paper attempts to show how the results of many of the redistributive efforts made during the first years of the APRA government in Peru were reversed in the following years. To this end, we analyze three of the most important mechanisms used by the government in the 1985-1990 period to affect income distribution: public […]
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Regional databases and S&T development indicators problems, achievements and utilization of grade’s Latin American database
GRADE has accumulated a large volume of S&T and socio-economic indicators gathered in a database. It purpose is to maintain updated statistical data which can be used to monitor the evolution of scientific production in the region.
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El sector agropecuario peruano en 1992: evaluación y recomendaciones para su desarrollo
The document specifically proposes avoiding exceptions to the free price system, seeking more transparent mechanisms if certain crops are to be protected; making investments to reduce marketing costs; promoting the development of a rural financial system; and promoting the transfer of appropriate technologies, among other proposals.
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Una alternativa al actual sistema de sobretasas agrícolas en el Perú
This paper evaluates the results of Peru’s application of the system of import tariff surcharges on certain agricultural goods up to mid-1992. This evaluation reveals that, in its various versions with flexible and fixed surcharges, the system has been inefficient in achieving the objectives set out to justify its implementation. These objectives were, first, to […]
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Gasto público en educación y distribución del ingreso en el Perú
Las transferencias desde el presupuesto público vía el destino del gasto educativo por estratos socioeconómicos y su impacto en la mejora del ingreso familiar y modificación de la estructura distributiva peruana.
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Impacto de la política de precios y de crédito agrícola sobre la distribución del ingreso en el Perú: 1985-1990
This document describes and analyses the agricultural strategy of the APRA government from the point of view of its redistributive effects. The strategy, which was intended to benefit mainly the poorest strata of agriculture, was centred on the PRESA, a programme aimed at ensuring growing demand at profitable prices for agricultural producers, and was accompanied […]
