{"title":"Income Inequality, Poverty and Economic Growth in Chile: The Years of the Coalition of Parties for Democracy","authors":"Jorge Rojas Vallejos","doi":"10.22370/rpe.2018.6.1389","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22370/rpe.2018.6.1389","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this article is to provide insight on the relationship between income inequality, poverty, and economic growth for Chile during the administrations of the Coalition of Parties for Democracy (CPD) from 1989 to 2010. This study described the evolution of the Chilean economy and relates its behavior to the political transition experienced by the country. We build a model to analyze whether there is political cooperation in this period and why. Last, we observe that for Chile, economic growth alone is not enough to alleviate inequality problems, but it plays a major role in reducing poverty.","PeriodicalId":217653,"journal":{"name":"Revista Perfiles Económicos","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129682331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neoestructuralismo y Macroeconomía para el Desarrollo II","authors":"Ricardo Ffrench-Davis","doi":"10.22370/rpe.2018.6.1388","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22370/rpe.2018.6.1388","url":null,"abstract":"El objetivo de esta contribución es examinar los sesgos depresores y regresivos sobre el crecimiento económico y el empleo que provoca el estilo aún predominante de políticas macroeconómicas inspiradas en el Consenso de Washington o enfoque neoliberal, y delinear los rasgos y efectos centrales de una macroeconomía para el desarrollo; se enfatizan, en particular, las implicancias de la fuerte heterogeneidad estructural entre diversos tipos de agentes económicos, heterogeneidad que es un rasgo más característico de las economías en desarrollo como las de la región.","PeriodicalId":217653,"journal":{"name":"Revista Perfiles Económicos","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131466331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La Sociedad de Fomento Fabril y los Desafíos de los años 30: entre la Turbulencia Política y el Liderazgo Gremial","authors":"Eduardo López Bravo","doi":"10.22370/rpe.2018.6.1391","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22370/rpe.2018.6.1391","url":null,"abstract":"La primera mitad de la década de 1930 fue compleja para las elites económicas y las asociaciones empresariales. Los agudos problemas sociales, políticos y económicos desencadenados desde la Gran Depresión y la posterior caída del gobierno de Carlos Ibáñez del Campo repercutieron con fuerza en el mundo empresarial y sus tradicionales organizaciones. La vorágine de cambios de gobierno, la ampliación de las atribuciones estatales para promover el desarrollo económico, las instituciones de control de precios y la legislación social dan cuenta de la profundidad del cambio social y político que experimentó el país.Este artículo analiza el proceso de reacción y rearticulación empresarial frente a un cuadro social y político adverso que culminó en la formación de la Confederación de la Producción y el Comercio (CPC). Nos interesa destacar que en el transcurso de los años treinta SOFOFA asumió crecientemente un liderazgo gremial que la posicionó como la asociación empresarial más activa en defensa de los intereses de los empresarios nacionales.","PeriodicalId":217653,"journal":{"name":"Revista Perfiles Económicos","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133297584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La Segunda Transición, conversaciones con Alejandro Foxley","authors":"Nicolás Adolfo Müller Lyng","doi":"10.22370/rpe.2018.6.1393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22370/rpe.2018.6.1393","url":null,"abstract":"Libro de las autoras Cony Stipicic y Cecilia Barria. Editorial Uqbar, 162 paginas, 2017. ISBN 9789563760415","PeriodicalId":217653,"journal":{"name":"Revista Perfiles Económicos","volume":"13 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115284570","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Crypto-currencies, Speculation and the Evolution of Monetary Systems","authors":"Andrés Solimano","doi":"10.22370/RPE.2018.6.1390","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22370/RPE.2018.6.1390","url":null,"abstract":"The development of new digital technologies in the areas of cryptography, distributed ledgers and mobile phones is affecting the way money is used for economic transactions. Electronic payments systems are rapidly replacing the use of cash. New powerful distributed ledger technologies, operated on a peer-to-peer decentralized basis is leading to the rapid expansion of digital money, with bitcoin being the most prominent digital currency (although there are more than one-thousand different crypto-currencies).","PeriodicalId":217653,"journal":{"name":"Revista Perfiles Económicos","volume":"9 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114127238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"De la Historia de los Alimentos a la Historia de la Nutrición: Reflexiones sobre América Latina en la Primera Mitad del Siglo XX","authors":"Joel Vargas Domínguez","doi":"10.22370/rpe.2018.6.1392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22370/rpe.2018.6.1392","url":null,"abstract":"El presente artículo tiene por dos objetivos principales. El primero de ellos es mostrar dónde se insertan los estudios sobre la nutrición en el campo más amplio de los estudios sobre alimentación, así como vincular historiografías sobre alimentos con la historia de la disciplina nutricional. El segundo objetivo es ofrecer una visión panorámica sobre los estudios de la nutrición en algunos países latinoamericanos en la primera mitad del siglo XX. En este panorama, enfatizo algunos procesos históricos paralelos en estos países. Lo anterior me sirve para proponer algunas líneas de investigación para la historia de la nutrición en América Latina en perspectiva comparada.","PeriodicalId":217653,"journal":{"name":"Revista Perfiles Económicos","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115186004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neoextractivismo en la mineria, prácticas coloniales y lugares de resistencia en Amazonia, Brasil","authors":"Edna Ramos de Castro","doi":"10.22370/rpe.2018.5.1236","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22370/rpe.2018.5.1236","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":217653,"journal":{"name":"Revista Perfiles Económicos","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125304887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"El impacto de la nueva ley de etiquetados de alimentos en la venta de productos en Chile","authors":"Valeria Scapini Sánchez, Cinthya Vergara Silva","doi":"10.22370/rpe.2017.3.1218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22370/rpe.2017.3.1218","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":217653,"journal":{"name":"Revista Perfiles Económicos","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122234500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La Industria del Salitre antes de la Primera Guerra Mundial. Dos Impresiones Contemporáneas sobre su Economía y Futuro","authors":"J. A. González Pizarro","doi":"10.22370/rpe.2017.4.1231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22370/rpe.2017.4.1231","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":217653,"journal":{"name":"Revista Perfiles Económicos","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116322697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}