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  • Talking Peruvian Development with Miguel Castilla, Peru’s Former Minister of Economy and Finance

    Talking Peruvian Development with Miguel Castilla, Peru’s Former Minister of Economy and Finance

    Considering Peruvian aggregate figures, we can see high GDP growth rates and exports, as well as significant poverty reduction during the last 15 years. However, regions such as Huancavelica, Ayacucho, and Cajamarca, to mention a few, are not performing well at all. They still have very high poverty rates, between…

  • A Tripartite Alliance for Hukou Reform

    A Tripartite Alliance for Hukou Reform

    Although earlier hukou reforms benefited rural residents by allowing them to seek employment and business opportunities in the city, recent hukou reforms have served as a wheel of agrarian capitalism, the purpose of which is to lure or force rural residents to leave land for city and to open up…