The country's economy has changed structurally in the 20 years of neoliberalism that the country has been established. The share of extractive activities and transformation in wealth creation is maintained. Peru is about the first world proclaims the government, but the economy. (Clarifying that the economy will not reduce the growth of the GDP figure.) In 1991 the processing sector accounted for 20.1% of GDP, by 2009 the percentage is 20.6%, whereas the extractive sector increases from 1991 which was 12.9% of GDP to 14% in 2009.
How can you say that Peru advanced to the first world if the country's economic structure, which we described 20 years ago as a sub developed, appears to be?. In the World Development Report 2008 of World Bank read that as a country approaches the circle of developed nations, the share of agriculture in GDP and labor force tends to decrease. Let's see: in the Ninth Population Census of 1993 reported that 26.3% of the economically active population over 6 years was engaged in agriculture, hunting and forestry, in the XI population census of 2007 the figure was 23.4%. 8.0% of total GDP in 1991 corresponded to the GDP of agriculture, hunting and forestry, by 2009 the participation rate was 7.8%. In neither case has been profound signal that we are close to the first world at the logic of the World Bank. We have grown
yes, but not enough yet to reach levels of GDP per capita of at least our South American neighbors such as Chile, and worse, the trend is not sector-meaning a structural change. Exporting primary nature of the economy is deepening, and therefore it is not uncommon for catching GDP growth has shown the greatest growth in the last 20 years compared to the processing sector.
Why then insist on promoting a series of ineffective policies for the public interest? In fact, as mentioned by Stefano Varese, a brief analysis of the indigenous situation in the country with the discourse of development on private lands, is to deepen the practical expansion of neoliberal capitalism in its size, which believes in the privatization and the market as dogmas. To this we might add the high character of corrupt dealings around these policies under the pretext of attracting private investment are present in series of committees, lobbying, and sales tax exemptions for miserable price (Discovery Petroleum, Collique airfield, Camisea, Fujimori's privatization, etc.).
This neoliberal model of limited political corruption and the assault of decision-making bodies of people who not only have a low understanding of the reality of the country but hate the people living on its soil. But how it is understood that a president adjectives Indians as "second class citizens"?. How is it that the government claims that returning contributions from fonavistas means more taxes on citizens, while the big mining carry on mining profits? Only to disguise these attitudes and give the technical course, resort to pro-market discourse.
ECLAC (2008) in the book Productive Transformation 20 years later, emphasizes the choice of development path can not rely solely on market conditions, but particularly the resources available, especially the knowledge and experience of productive agents, which results in the propensity to invest steadily in the long term by promoting technical progress, which leads to the inference that improvements in the country's productive structure, should result in increasing levels of participation in the export of sophisticated products. Obviously in Peru, the speech pro neoliberalism forget that, and therefore the volume and value of exports is mainly composed of natural resources.
But still, talking about less state and more market to continue in the path that leads the government's mouth to the first world, and the argument is that the private sector is more efficient and economic relations should be guided by the forces of supply and demand. But in the end, those power groups and public officials of economic policy givers (staff before or after companies that benefit while they are in the public system) use the State and its power to impose rentier practice, primary export the economy. The state and government in particular, are nothing more than an instrument to expand the exploitation of raw materials to areas with different lifestyles. Governments in the past 20 years, serving capitalism in a more repressive and inhumane phase. See more
