Apuntes 18
The articles in this issue: Propose a distinctive conceptual framework that emphasizes the role of the human factor in the economic development of nations; Analyze the informal urban sector, proposing a new theoretical approach to overcome the inconsistency of the conventional paradigm; Provide some guidelines to determine whether import protection is effective, analyzing relative prices to determine whether other economic sectors are seriously impacted; Examine the scope of urban planning in metropolitan Lima within the context of national, regional, and local development, proposing specific actions to ensure effective and participative solutions to metropolitan- and district-level problems; Provide an overview of European immigration to Peru, aiming at an initial analysis of previous studies in this area; Provide a social history of the emergence of modern science in Peru over the period 1890-1930; Reconstruct the socio-political and economic context in which the populist economic policy was implemented by the Bustamente-APRA government; Analyze the abandonment of the Andean agricultural technology, the case of the andenes, in the context of changes in Andean social and organizational systems.

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