Apuntes 20

The articles in this issue: Identify differences and similarities between the stabilization plans of Argentina, Brazil, and Peru, as well as some reflections on anti-inflationary policies; Establish a relationship between the consolidation of Peruvian democracy and the attempts of the Belaunde government (1980-1985) to apply economic austerity programs; Study the rift within the Catholic education system in Peru, sparked by Velasco's 1972 reforms; Examine the social demand for university education in Peru at the level of individual participants in the process; Review the literature on agricultural development in Peru over the period 1968-1986, in terms of the transformation of haciendas into cooperatives and the subsequent parceling of the latter; Analyze the consistency of decision-making during the first half of the Velasco government, with reference to the Majes-Siguas irrigation project as a typical case; Focus on the emergence of various indigenous organizations in the Amazon over the past two decades, attempting to pinpoint the common axes between them and the wider society around them; Propose an epistemological and economic basis for a new conceptual framework for a general theory of economic development.