The impact of foreign debt on economic growth and private investment in Peru: 1980-2008

Authors

  • Carlos Cervantes Grundy National University of Engineering, Lima, Peru

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21754/iecos.v10i0.1261

Keywords:

growth equation , private investment , external debt

Abstract

A review of the time series of the Peruvian economic process shows that private investment has an inverse behavior to that of total external debt. Resident economic actors and potential foreign investors, upon observing levels of indebtedness that exceed the ability to pay, reduce investment, which has consequences on the economic growth rate. In the growth equation, introducing the indicator of external debt over GDP squared in order to simulate the Laffer curve, it was found that from 44% of debt over GDP, the indicator is associated with negative growth rates.

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Published

2010-11-22

How to Cite

Cervantes Grundy, C. (2010). The impact of foreign debt on economic growth and private investment in Peru: 1980-2008. Revista IECOS, 10, 73–97. https://doi.org/10.21754/iecos.v10i0.1261

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