Peruvian Informal Sector and Development─the Interpretation of Braudel’s Historical Method and the Study of de Soto’s Economic Development Ideas

• Main Authors: Lin, Chia-Yu, 林家裕
• Other Authors: Chang, Wei-Penn
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2003
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/72306901103465126790

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 拉丁美洲研究所 === 91 === The purpose of this thesis is to discuss the role of informal sector in Peruvian economic regime and to stress on the economic activities conducted by people in the middle and lower level of life and their life related to economy under the background of economic regime, in order to understand how informal sector was formed and developed in terms of time and space. According to the fact that informal sector are still at the stage of “conjecture”, there are various research approaches adopted by foreign and domestic researchers to analyze this sort of economic phenomenon, and, in addition, the arguments and definition concluded by them are remaining difference with each other. Thus, this thesis views the informal sector as a realistic phenomenon for the purpose to understand it clearly. In the process of reading reference and arrange information and data, this thesis systematically analyzes those followings with the consideration of the factors of time and space: (1) the particularities of informal sector, (2) the features of economic regime in Peru, (3) de Soto’s ideas of economic development and (4) political implications and inspiration induced from de Soto’s ideas of economic development. In addition to documental analysis, this thesis also adopts the historical method introduced by Fernand Braudel, a historian of Ecole des Annales, and the concept of national economic regime as methods of research. With regard to the structure of research and the arrangement of chapters in this thesis, the content of this thesis is divided into two parts. Chapter two and three are set out as the first part of this thesis, which are focused on the analysis of Peruvian informal sector and its economic development by utilizing Fernand Braudel’s historical-structural approach. Furthermore, Chapter four and five are structured as the second part of this thesis, which extend the analysis and content of previous two chapters and, additionally, emphasize the discussion on de Soto’s ideas of economic development and his action.