Apuntes 48

The articles in this issue: Analyze, in the general terms, the issue of economic growth on the world level and, in more detail, the case of Peru; Summarize and evaluate the importance of the slave system in Colonial Peru, which not only affected Africans but also Asians, Moors, and indigenous people; Examine corruption during the government of president Alberto Fujimori, employing the hypothesis of achoramiento, understood as a strategy for social mobility that essentially violates ethical and juridical norms; Study the macroeconomic effects of the privatization of public companies; Analyze subjective considerations in measuring poverty in Peru in order to define an antipoverty strategy; Examine Odria autocracy (1948-1956) as an example of how autocracies, in contrast to democracies, promote instability in the rules of the game and the application of populist policies.