Adolfo Figueroa

Country researcher, in charge of Peru, and as professor of economics at Catholic University of Peru, a member of CRISE.

Email: afiguer@pucp.edu.pe

Telephone: Office (51-1) 460 2870 ext. 217

Research areas

The economics of inequality, labor markets, rural development

Current research

- CRISE: Inequality, Political Instability and Ethnicity in Peru. The basic objective is to measure the changes in the degree of inequality of the stock of economic and political assets by ethnic groups in Peru and associate them to the trends and cycles of Peru’s political instability;

- Catholic University—individual project: Path Dependence in Economic Development: A Theoretical and Empirical Approach. The aim of this research is to investigate the role of initial conditions (economic and social) in the trajectory of growth and income inequality of Third World countries.

Recent Publications

- “Social Exclusion as Distribution Theory.” In E. Gacitúa, C. Sojo, S. Davis (editors), Social Exclusion and Poverty Reduction in Latin America. Washington DC: The World Bank, 2001.

- “La sociedad sigma. Una teoría del desarrollo económico. Lima and México”. DF: Pontificia Universidad Católica and Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2003.