#27 The Limitations of State Capitalism as a Model of Economic Development: Peru, 1968-1975
By E.V.K. FitzGerald
This paper was presented at the November 2-4, 1978 Workshop on "The Peruvian Experiment Reconsidered" organized by the Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Summary
This paper attempts to elucidate the logic of the model of economic development established by the Gobierno Revolucionario de la Fuerza Armada in Peru after 1968, in order to distinguish intrinsic economic contradictions from those difficulties arising from external factors and policy errors.
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