Adolfo Figueroa
Biographic Data
| ID | 135605 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adolfo Figueroa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adolfo |
| FAMILY NAME | Figueroa |
| SIGNATURE | FIGUEROA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Esquema para un programa de desarrollo campesino en la sierra del Perú
La pobreza en el Perú está concentrada en el campo. Las familias campesinas, agricultores minifundistas que producen en pequeñas parcelas, constituyen cerca del 30 % de la población del país y se encuentran en la base de la pirámide de ingresos. No existe en el Perú grupo social más numeroso ni más pobre que el campesinado. Con la crisis económica de los últimos años la pobreza urbana se ha agudizado más; pero aun así, todavía en el medio rural s…
Economic Growth and Social Progress
To cite Brazil again, the government of the “New Brazil” (more equal) spent a lot of fiscal resources to build or re-build football stadiums for the World Cup 2014 in the middle of protests of the people (covered by the international media), who demanded more education and health expenditure instead
Inequality and Power
The general objective of Inequality and Power is to present a class analysis of income inequality. A more precise objective is to explain the observed increasing inequality in the USA in the last d
Economic growth and the environment
The relationship between economic growth and the environment is one of the most significant problems in modern economics. Empirical data are increasingly available, but the theories behind those data remain a matter of debate. This paper presents an elementary theoretical model of the interactions between the economic process and the environment, drawing on a theory developed by Georgescu-Roegen, in which the laws of thermodynamics are applied to…
Income inequality and credit markets
Three empirical regularities have been identified in the financial literature: bank credit markets operate with collateral, they operate with excess demand and they coexist with other forms of credit provision. In the particular case of less developed countries, the financial structure comprises the banking industry, the formal non-banking industry and the informal sector. This paper presents a theoretical model that explains all three regulariti…
Is education income-equalizing? Evidence from Peru
Is the education system income-equalizing? The evidence from developing countries shows that while education has expanded tremendously in recent decades, income distribution has not become more equal. This article seeks to resolve this seeming paradox. A theoretical model is constructed for the relationship between education and income in which ethnicity plays a key role in the distribution process. The model predicts that the education system is…
Universal and Local Understanding of Poverty in Peru
The purpose of this survey of the literature on poverty in Peru is to contribute to universal and interdisciplinary understanding, while at the same time giving due weight to discipline-specific contributions. The first three sections review relevant literature on Peru by economists, social anthropologists and sociologists. The strict positivism of much economic literature renders it susceptible to neglect power relations and assume a benign and …
Reformas en sociedades desiguales. La experiencia peruana
Los países del primer mundo son no solo más ricos sino también más igualitarios comparados al conjunto de países de tercer mundo. ¿Por qué se mantiene esta situación de la economía mundial, aun en el presente periodo de mayor globalización? ¿Qué tipo de reformas se necesitarían para que se pudiera dar la convergencia entre los dos grupos de países? Este libro se dirige a responder estas preguntas. Para ello, el autor presenta una nueva teoría, un…
Equity, foreign investment and international competitiveness
Is the degree of competitiveness of countries independent of their degree of inequality? Is competitiveness only a question of microeconomic and sectoral efficiency, of the real exchange rate, or is it also a social question? So far, the specialized literature has ignored the problem of equity in the determination of countries' competitiveness. It has then not been able to fully explain the observed competitiveness, however. In this article, equi…
The distributive issue in Latin America
Limits to Capitalist Development
Peru 1890–1977
El problema distributivo en diferentes contextos sociopolíticos y económicos
Política de precios agropecuarios e ingresos rurales en el Perú
Alimentos baratos en la ciudad implica necesariamente bajos ingresos en el campo? La respuesta a esta pregunta es tradicionalmente afirmativa. Políticos y economistas coinciden en señalar que el conflicto campo-ciudad es uno de los más dramáticos en los países subdesarrollados. Sin embargo, se conoce poco sobre la importancia cuantitativa que tiene esa relación. En el presente trabajo se hace un examen detallado, con vistas a tal cuantificación, …
Agrarian reforms in Latin America
Traversing the Social Pyramid
DUKE: Her madness hath the oddest frame of sense, Such a dependency of thing on thing, As e'er I heard in madness. ISABEL: O a gracious Duke, Harp not on that! nor do not banish reason For inequality, but let your reason serve To make the truth appear where it seems hid And hide the false seems true! Shakespeare, Measure for Measure The study of the distribution of income summarizes a nation's social organization and the outcome of the forces of …
Income distribution, demand structure and employment
The present growth process of Peru is characterized by a relatively low rate of labour absorption in the modem firms (together with growing urbanization and urban under‐employmenf). This fact, which is common in underdeveloped countries, has been usually attributed to factor market imperfections and/or imported technology. This study attempts to estimate empirically the hypothesis that the rate of industrial employment may also be influenced by t…
Calendar of Meetings
Current Legal Aspects of Doing Business in Latin America, The New Challenge of Latin American Nationalism to Foreign Investment-Present and Future. The Institute inquired into and attempted to provide the means of understanding recent changes in the investment climate together with the new social restlessness, the new economic and political nationalism, and motivations underlying these changes in Latin America
Universal and Local Understanding of Poverty in Peru
The purpose of this survey of the literature on poverty in Peru is to contribute to universal and interdisciplinary understanding, while at the same time giving due weight to discipline-specific contributions. The first three sections review relevant literature on Peru by economists, social anthropologists and sociologists. The strict positivism of much economic literature renders it susceptible to neglect power relations and assume a benign and …
Política de precios agropecuarios e ingresos rurales en el Perú
Alimentos baratos en la ciudad implica necesariamente bajos ingresos en el campo? La respuesta a esta pregunta es tradicionalmente afirmativa. Políticos y economistas coinciden en señalar que el conflicto campo-ciudad es uno de los más dramáticos en los países subdesarrollados. Sin embargo, se conoce poco sobre la importancia cuantitativa que tiene esa relación. En el presente trabajo se hace un examen detallado, con vistas a tal cuantificación, …
The distributive issue in Latin America
Calendar of Meetings
Current Legal Aspects of Doing Business in Latin America, The New Challenge of Latin American Nationalism to Foreign Investment-Present and Future. The Institute inquired into and attempted to provide the means of understanding recent changes in the investment climate together with the new social restlessness, the new economic and political nationalism, and motivations underlying these changes in Latin America
Income distribution, demand structure and employment
The present growth process of Peru is characterized by a relatively low rate of labour absorption in the modem firms (together with growing urbanization and urban under‐employmenf). This fact, which is common in underdeveloped countries, has been usually attributed to factor market imperfections and/or imported technology. This study attempts to estimate empirically the hypothesis that the rate of industrial employment may also be influenced by t…
Traversing the Social Pyramid
DUKE: Her madness hath the oddest frame of sense, Such a dependency of thing on thing, As e'er I heard in madness. ISABEL: O a gracious Duke, Harp not on that! nor do not banish reason For inequality, but let your reason serve To make the truth appear where it seems hid And hide the false seems true! Shakespeare, Measure for Measure The study of the distribution of income summarizes a nation's social organization and the outcome of the forces of …
Agrarian reforms in Latin America
Política de precios agropecuarios e ingresos rurales en el Perú
Alimentos baratos en la ciudad implica necesariamente bajos ingresos en el campo? La respuesta a esta pregunta es tradicionalmente afirmativa. Políticos y economistas coinciden en señalar que el conflicto campo-ciudad es uno de los más dramáticos en los países subdesarrollados. Sin embargo, se conoce poco sobre la importancia cuantitativa que tiene esa relación. En el presente trabajo se hace un examen detallado, con vistas a tal cuantificación, …
Peru 1890–1977
El problema distributivo en diferentes contextos sociopolíticos y económicos
Limits to Capitalist Development
The distributive issue in Latin America
Equity, foreign investment and international competitiveness
Is the degree of competitiveness of countries independent of their degree of inequality? Is competitiveness only a question of microeconomic and sectoral efficiency, of the real exchange rate, or is it also a social question? So far, the specialized literature has ignored the problem of equity in the determination of countries' competitiveness. It has then not been able to fully explain the observed competitiveness, however. In this article, equi…
Reformas en sociedades desiguales. La experiencia peruana
Los países del primer mundo son no solo más ricos sino también más igualitarios comparados al conjunto de países de tercer mundo. ¿Por qué se mantiene esta situación de la economía mundial, aun en el presente periodo de mayor globalización? ¿Qué tipo de reformas se necesitarían para que se pudiera dar la convergencia entre los dos grupos de países? Este libro se dirige a responder estas preguntas. Para ello, el autor presenta una nueva teoría, un…
Universal and Local Understanding of Poverty in Peru
The purpose of this survey of the literature on poverty in Peru is to contribute to universal and interdisciplinary understanding, while at the same time giving due weight to discipline-specific contributions. The first three sections review relevant literature on Peru by economists, social anthropologists and sociologists. The strict positivism of much economic literature renders it susceptible to neglect power relations and assume a benign and …
Income inequality and credit markets
Three empirical regularities have been identified in the financial literature: bank credit markets operate with collateral, they operate with excess demand and they coexist with other forms of credit provision. In the particular case of less developed countries, the financial structure comprises the banking industry, the formal non-banking industry and the informal sector. This paper presents a theoretical model that explains all three regulariti…
Is education income-equalizing? Evidence from Peru
Is the education system income-equalizing? The evidence from developing countries shows that while education has expanded tremendously in recent decades, income distribution has not become more equal. This article seeks to resolve this seeming paradox. A theoretical model is constructed for the relationship between education and income in which ethnicity plays a key role in the distribution process. The model predicts that the education system is…
Economic growth and the environment
The relationship between economic growth and the environment is one of the most significant problems in modern economics. Empirical data are increasingly available, but the theories behind those data remain a matter of debate. This paper presents an elementary theoretical model of the interactions between the economic process and the environment, drawing on a theory developed by Georgescu-Roegen, in which the laws of thermodynamics are applied to…
Economic Growth and Social Progress
To cite Brazil again, the government of the “New Brazil” (more equal) spent a lot of fiscal resources to build or re-build football stadiums for the World Cup 2014 in the middle of protests of the people (covered by the international media), who demanded more education and health expenditure instead
Inequality and Power
The general objective of Inequality and Power is to present a class analysis of income inequality. A more precise objective is to explain the observed increasing inequality in the USA in the last d
Esquema para un programa de desarrollo campesino en la sierra del Perú
La pobreza en el Perú está concentrada en el campo. Las familias campesinas, agricultores minifundistas que producen en pequeñas parcelas, constituyen cerca del 30 % de la población del país y se encuentran en la base de la pirámide de ingresos. No existe en el Perú grupo social más numeroso ni más pobre que el campesinado. Con la crisis económica de los últimos años la pobreza urbana se ha agudizado más; pero aun así, todavía en el medio rural s…
Economics (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Economic Theory and Policy (8 works) · Inequality (7 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (6 works) · Humanities (5 works) · Development economics (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Income distribution (4 works) · Law (4 works)