Export economic growth, social welfare, and economic development: a departmental analysis for Perú, 2005-2019

Abstract

This thesis exposes the relationship between traditional and non-traditional exports, with social well-being and economic development. Social well-being will be approximated by estimating a Sen well-being index; while economic development is approximated, from a standard perspective, by GDP per capita. The results obtained show that social well-being depend directly on the level of non-traditional exports, while economic development depends directly on both traditional and non-traditional exports. Finally, social well-being and economic development are concomitant but obey different explanatory variables.