Roberto Chang and Zaraí Toledo in conversation with Carlos Paredes Lanatta

The Peruvian economy and its challenges

Arequipa 2024, Saturday 9 November 2024

Roberto Chang (Peru/United States) is a Distinguished Professor at the University of Rutgers (New Jersey) and a researcher at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has also been an official researcher at the Federal Reserve in Atlanta and professor at the universities of New York, Princeton, Columbia and the London School of Economics. His contributions to the study of international economy, monetary and exchange policy, and financial crises have been very well received and are considered in the academic debate about the practice of political economy. He is the editor of Economía peruana: ¿Milagro o ficción? Zaraí Toledo (Peru) has a doctorate in Politics from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He researches the development of the Andrean state, the management of natural resources, and informality. He is currently a post-doctoral researcher at the Center for Inter-American Policy and Research (CIPR) at Tulane University, New Orleans. These two will talk about the challenges of the Peruvian economy, together with the economist Carlos Paredes Lanatta.