Crise política e seus efeitos na qualidade de vida dos peruanos

Abstract

Studies on the impacts of corruption on the population's living standards are currently a poorly advanced field of research, due to the difficulty in quantifying the corruption variable. The work has as its starting point the analysis of Peruvian political history to be able to understand theoretically the present day. Based on this, the research tried to identify and determine the correlation, and, to what extent, cases of corruption affect the indices of basic services for the categorization of a standard of quality of life. To this end, the principal component analysis (PCA) method was used, where four categories of regions of Peru were identified: regions with less corruption and more informal employment, corrupt and poor regions, regions with little corruption and poverty, and, finally, corrupt, poor and with minimal state presence. The results of the analysis present some regions, allowing a correlation to be made between the general description of these regions and, at the same time, how corruption affects the quality of life of the Peruvian population.