Apuntes 36

The articles in this issue: Analyze the capacity of the state to manage large-scale organizations, an organizational technology that is particularly scarce in poor countries; Discuss issues such as the appropriate institutional framework for the functioning of the market, assuring economic growth, and the political consolidation of neoliberal reforms; Discuss differing aspects of the importance of technology to productive and entrepreneurial development in Latin America and the Caribbean; Analyze the real exchange rate in Peru during the Stabilization Program (1990-1994); Provide a comparative analysis of political processes in Peru and Italy and their similarities, in terms of the current irrelevance of political parties and the collapse of the “partidocracia”; Analyze the factors that enabled the financial success of small businesses in Peru, including the personal characteristics of their founders, the values that guide their management, and the availability of financial resources; Investigate the coca economy in Peru and its implications for migration and the environment; Research the financing of technological change in subsistence agriculture.