Editorial

Abstract

The effort to keep the IECOS Magazine at the service of research has materialized in numbers 1 and 2, published in 2005 (April) and 2006 (September), respectively; now our purpose is to redouble the effort to achieve a quarterly periodicity. We have wanted the appearance of this number to coincide with the inauguration of the new academic year of 2007, as a good omen regarding the integration between teaching and research. It is our wish that research becomes an essential task for a significant number of teachers and students, which requires generating institutional consensus within our faculty that allows allocating more resources to research. The IECOS has accompanied the Faculty with various research-oriented initiatives at different times of its institutional life. In the 1970s there was a fruitful production of research papers generated since the so-called "GIECOS" that had the support of international cooperation (University of Tilburg in the Netherlands and ILPES), especially in the development of economic models and economic policy. . At that time the University, and in particular our Faculty and its research nucleus, had a recognized action in the discussion of the country's problems and their solutions. We hope to resume this important institutional precedent in the framework of the IECOS Work Plan 2007-2008. We want to join efforts, among them the Economic and Social Research Consortium (CIES), of which IECOS and the Faculty are associated, and at the same time resume the Agreement with ILPES, participating in the projects of the whole University from the Central Research Council from UNI. Our purpose is to outline topics for analysis and debate around economic policy models, establishing priority and permanent lines of research, where teachers and students can concentrate their work. We also want to invite external scholars and especially guarantee the diversity of approaches and ideologies, since in our opinion the university character is expressed in that multiplicity. In short, the project is to create a new profile for the Magazine in the following issues. This number has a first section that we wanted to call "Economic Studies". It begins with the work of Alfredo Erquizio who makes a forecast of the Peruvian economic process based on the main growth models accepted by specialists. César Cetraro offers us a basic study regarding the Apurimac region, where he outlines the panorama of economic variables with a deep sense of commitment to the weakest, which in this case are the peasants. Enrique Sato continues his reflections on economic ideas and realities at the end of the 19th century, providing a review of liberal proposals. The subject of Hernán Cuentas is the need for a better mechanism to measure the efficiency of companies dedicated to electricity distribution. The students Coaguila, Muñoz and Fuentes discuss the desirable tariff. The second section, called "Statistical Studies", contains a paper by Professors Navarro, Espinoza and Quiroz that evaluates the rainting estimates by proposing a complex sample model to guarantee the quality of the results. Next, the students Yábar Hernández and Solano deal with a system for the attention of passengers of an airline. We have named the third section "Cultural and Political Society", grouping in it those texts that cover social issues from multiple approaches. Victor Carranza takes up the question of postmodern ideas in Peru based on a work by José Ignacio López Soria. Julio Ismodes has been interested in the Ecuadorian indigenous movement, describing and evaluating its actions in the past decade. Dennis Chávez from Paz synthesizes the complex impact of globalization on our sub-continent. Lastly, we wanted to directly address the political debate by reproducing the Editorial of the weekly "La Tribuna" of the Aprista party before e va ud desce your position the first of the article by Professor Ulises Humala that evaluates from his position the section of the current government, To conclude, We reiterate our invitation to the teachers of the faculty so that they send us their work and thereby create the necessary conditions to publish the next number within the stipulated period.