02216cas a2200325 a 4500 AALejournalIMF023197 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 9798400220333 20.00 USD 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Chavez, Carlos. Closing Peru's Ethnic Gaps Amidst Sustained Economic Growth / Carlos Chavez, Gonzalo Salinas, Yuri Zamora. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2022. 1 online resource (48 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students We analyze the recent evolution of ethnic economic inequality in Peru, a major source of social discontent in the country. Household survey data indicates that recent decades of high output growth also witnessed a substantial narrowing of socioeconomic gaps among ethnicities. Most notably, the Mestizo ethnic group surpassed the White group in income per capita, and Native American also experienced a relative improvement. Mincerian regression analysis suggests that the main contributors to these developments were rural-to-urban migration and increased education. Based on our statistical findings, we propose enhancing education and other public services, increasing government revenues, lowering informality, and promoting competition as the main public policies that could accelerate the ongoing narrowing of ethnic gaps. Mode of access: Internet Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria imf Income Inequality imf Informal Economy imf Underground Econom imf Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty imf Salinas, Gonzalo. Zamora, Yuri. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2022/180 Full text available on IMF https://elibrary.imf.org/openurl?genre=journal&issn=1018-5941&volume=2022&issue=180 IMF e-Library