Regional income gap in Peru during the period 2007 – 2019

Salazar C.; Augusto J. · Revista de Ciencias Sociales (2022) · DOI: 10.31876/rcs.v28i3.38472

Resumen

The research addresses the study of the income gap in the twenty-four regions of Peru, examining whether the heterogeneity in income found in previous works is maintained, or if, on the contrary, they show some tendency towards convergence in per capita income during the period under study. Thus, through nonexperimental descriptive research, through the application of time series, regressions and the cross-sectional analysis of indices built from macroeconomic variables, it was possible to find a direct relationship between the income of the regions, the performance economic and social, however, it was observed that foreign direct investment and national policies have not been able to shorten the regional economic differences of the country, being the regions with the best projection Lima, Cusco, Arequipa, Ica, La Libertad, Moquegua, Piura, and Tacna, where growth has been boosted by the oil, mining and trade sectors. In contrast are the regions with the greatest backwardness: Amazonas, Apurímac, Huancavelica, and Ucayali. In the middle of these extremes, a conglomeration of regions with stagnant income or in slight decline. Concluding that large disparities still exist between the regions. © Licencia de Creative Commons Atribución 4.0 Internacional (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.es

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos