The new development strategy adopted in Peru, since August 1990, attempts to set up the basis of a modern, competitive, and export oriented strategy. Nevertheless, it is clear that the period of transition involves costs. In order to minimize it, the authors think it is necessary the inmediate reactivation of those sectors with comparative natural advantages in order to absorb part of the cost of the this transition.In that way, a new leading sector will turn up and guide the export growth. Among them, the authors consider that the agroindustrial sector, due to its potencial and excellent natural conditions, will play a leading rol.

​The formation of regional blocks in the world set up new challenges to the export sectors of the economies of developing countries. This article aims to analyze the relationship between Peru and one of those blocks: the European Economic Community. This is presented as an important alternative for expansion of Peruvian exports, which will be essential to have a stable macroeconomic framework internally to exploit the country's comparative advantages and to develop competitive advantages; these elements will depend on integration more efficient of the Peruvian economy to international markets​.

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This article looks at US foreign relations. The changes that occurred at the end of the 1980s brought new perspectives on theory into discussion, with realism and neorealism at the heart of the debate. The author goes on to dissect different outlooks on the redistribution of world power and the role that will fall to the US in the future, stemming from an analysis of its foreign policy in the new international environment. The author also turns his attention to the new role of international organizations, military and economic power, as well as democracy and human rights.

Designing adequate social policy involves "bearing in mind" a theoretical reference framework that enables it to work in practice. The aim of this article is to air a number of ideas on the subject, with an emphasis on the input of tools that provide economic theory applicable to the health sector. The usefulness of such a framework is that it provides a meeting ground for health specialists and economists.

Significant institutional changes have taken place during the government of Alberto Fujimori. What is the meaning of these changes? Do they reflect Alberto Fujimori's strategy of power consolidation? Are they the result of the strategy of dominant economic classes to continue exploiting Peru's resources? Or are these institutions reflecting a process of democratization of the state?   This article explores these questions by examining state institutions in the area of public services. The argument is briefly the following: although still incomplete, the regulatory state in public services means democratic progress compared to the previous form of state intervention based on public owned companies.