Peru: A Country Study4th edition. Edited by Rex A. Hudson. Prepared by the Library of Congress, Federal Research Division. Research completed September 1992. Describes and analyzes the history, politics, sociology, economics, and national security systems of Peru. Includes maps, black and white photographs, bibliographies, a glossary, and an index. |
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Page 176
... workers . Peru managed to accomplish such growth in the first post - World War II decades , but from the early 1970s the trend went downward . As more and more workers tried to survive in the service sector by self- employment or work ...
... workers . Peru managed to accomplish such growth in the first post - World War II decades , but from the early 1970s the trend went downward . As more and more workers tried to survive in the service sector by self- employment or work ...
Page 177
... workers in the formal sector . The much larger number of workers in the infor- mal sector , not covered by the minimum wage , also lost purchas- ing power in the course of the 1980s but apparently not as drastically . An index of real ...
... workers in the formal sector . The much larger number of workers in the infor- mal sector , not covered by the minimum wage , also lost purchas- ing power in the course of the 1980s but apparently not as drastically . An index of real ...
Page 417
... workers , 177 structural adjustment program ( SAP ) , student associations , 239 ; demonstrations , 132 ; movements , 40 , 239 students , 239-40 ; employment opportu- nities for , 240 ; in Lima , 88 , 132 ; tra- dition of political ...
... workers , 177 structural adjustment program ( SAP ) , student associations , 239 ; demonstrations , 132 ; movements , 40 , 239 students , 239-40 ; employment opportu- nities for , 240 ; in Lima , 88 , 132 ; tra- dition of political ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | xiii |
Introduction | xxix |
Historical Setting | 1 |
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activities Agrarian agricultural Alan García Pérez American Andean APRA areas Arequipa armed forces army Ayacucho Bank base Belaúnde government Bolivia Cajamarca Callao Cambio 90 capital Central Chile Chimbote civilian coastal coca colonial Congress country's crisis Cusco deficit democratic domestic drug economic Ecuador elections elite exports foreign Fredemo Fujimori government García government Glossary groups growth guerrilla highlands Huallaga Valley important Inca increased industrial inflation institutions insurgency Inter-American Development Bank International investment kilometers labor land Latin America Lima Lima's major ment mestizo migrants military million minister native officers organized party Peasant percent period Perú Peru's Peruvian police political Popular population poverty president prison problems production provinces Quechua reform region result role rural sector self-coup Selva Shining Path Sierra SL's social society Spanish tion traditional United University urban Velasco workers