Javier Silva Ruete
Peruvian politician, lawyer and economist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Javier Edilberto Silva Ruete (17 September 1935 – 21 September 2012) was a Peruvian politician, lawyer and economist.[1][2]
Silva Ruete was the son of Max Silva Velásquez, a notable physician from Piura, and Raquel Ruete de Silva.[1] He studied at the Colegio Salesianos and the Colegio San Miguel in Piura.[1] Silva Ruete studied Economy and Law at the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos.[1][2] He later obtained postgraduate degrees from Uruguay, Italy, France and the United States.[1] He worked at the Peruvian Central Reserve Bank and Banco de Fomento Agropecuario.[3]
Silva Ruete served as Minister of Agriculture in the First Presidency of Fernando Belaúnde Terry (1965 and 1967).[2] When he was appointed he was the youngest Minister of Agriculture in the history of the country.[1] At the time he belonged to the Christian Democrat Party (PDC).[1] He later served as Minister of Economy and Finance in the cabinets of Francisco Morales-Bermúdez (1978-1980), Valentín Paniagua (2000) and Alejandro Toledo (2002).[4][2] During his years as minister in the Morales-Bermúdez government he implemented neoliberal policies in accord with the International Monetary Fund.[5] He served as director of the Peruvian Central Reserve Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB). He held different posts in FAO, World Bank and Corporación Andina de Fomento. He was also a board member of different private companies.[2]
In 1984, he founded the political party Solidarity and Democracy (SODE) together with Manuel Moreyra and Aurelio Loret de Mola.[6] He contested the 1985 election as a SODE candidate on the APRA list, winning a seat in the Senate.[1] He obtained 116,478 preferential votes.[7]
He became president of the Central Reserve Bank in 2003 and served until 2004.[8]
Silva Ruete died of cancer, at the age of 77 on 21 September 2012.[2]
- Javier Silva Ruete (1 January 2008). Política económica para países emergentes. Taurus. ISBN 978-603-40-0601-0.
- Javier Silva Ruete (1983). La deuda externa del Perú. Fundación Friedrich Ebert.
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