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Peruvian Miracle: Good Luck or Good Policies?

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  • Waldo Mendoza

    (Departamento de Economía de la PUC del Perú)

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The Peruvian economy has had an extraordinary performance in the last 10 years. The 2012 per capita GDP is 66 percent over 2002 and more than double its 1992 level. In a long term perspective, the cumulative growth of GDP per capita recorded in the last 10 years has been the strongest since 1900. This is the "Peruvian miracle". This paper aims to find the determinants of Peruvian miracle. In theory, countries' macroeconomic performance can be determined by two factors: i) the “good (bad) luck effect” that is related to the international context, which can be favorable or unfavorable, and ii) the “good (bad) policies effects", associated with short-term macroeconomic policies or structural reforms, which are policies that alter the current development model. The hypothesis of this work is that the Peruvian miracle of the last 10 years has much to do with good luck and, in part, with good short-term macroeconomic policies. JEL Classification-JEL: F36, F41, F42 and F43

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  • Waldo Mendoza, 2013. "Peruvian Miracle: Good Luck or Good Policies?," Documentos de Trabajo / Working Papers 2013-371, Departamento de Economía - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
    • Handle: RePEc:pcp:pucwps:wp00371
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    1. Oscar Dancourt & Waldo Mendoza, 2009. "Choque externo y respuestas de política macroeconómica," Capítulos de Libros PUCP / Chapters of PUCP books, in: Oscar Dancourt & Félix Jiménez (ed.), Crisis internacional. Impactos y respuestas de política económica en el Perú., edition 1, chapter 2, pages 59-88, Fondo Editorial - Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
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    1. Guillermo Cruces & Gary S. Fields & David Jaume & Mariana Viollaz, 2015. "The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s: Peru country study," WIDER Working Paper Series 082, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    2. Guillermo Cruces & Gary S. Fields & David Jaume & Mariana Viollaz, 2015. "The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s: Peru country study," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2015-082, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    3. Samuele Bibi & Sebastian Valdecantos, 2023. "The Price (and Costs) of Macroeconomic Stability in Peru: Some Lessons on the Implications of FDI‐driven Growth," Development and Change, International Institute of Social Studies, vol. 54(5), pages 1136-1168, September.
    4. Bibi, Samuele & Valdecantos, Sebastián, 2023. "The price (and costs) of macroeconomic stability in Peru: Some lessons on the implications of FDI-driven growth," Nülan. Deposited Documents 4078, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales, Centro de Documentación.

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    Keywords

    Macroeconomic performance; international context; Latin America and Peru.;
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    JEL classification:

    • F36 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Financial Aspects of Economic Integration
    • F41 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - Open Economy Macroeconomics
    • F42 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - International Policy Coordination and Transmission
    • F43 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - Economic Growth of Open Economies

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