Piero Ghezzi has worn many hats. An economist and an entrepreneur, he has also served as the Minister of Production of Peru, where he designed and implemented a novel methodology - Mesas Ejecutivas - to implement productive development policies through public-private collaboration. 

Ghezzi tells us about the thinking behind this methodology, the process of implementing it, and how it helped address a range of public-public coordination failures and built trust between the government and the private sector. 

We also talk about the risk of elite capture and the need to build state capacity across all levels of governance. 

And, of course, we discuss all of this in the context of Peru’s economic development challenges, including regional imbalances and informality. 

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