Publications of Rural development and agriculture
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Combining social protection with economic opportunities in rural Peru: Haku Wiñay
The authors assess the impact of the Haku Wiñay programme (Mi chacra emprendedora), an intervention that provides productive technical assistance and a small asset transfer to rural households in the districts that are also covered by the Juntos programme, Peru’s conditional cash transfer (CCT). Haku Wiñay focuses on the development of productive and entrepreneurial skills […]
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Agricultura peruana: nuevas miradas desde el Censo Agropecuario
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Estructura agraria y dinámica de pobreza rural en el Perú
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Collective land access rights for enhancing smallholder livelihoods
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Inversión pública y descentralización: sus efectos sobre la pobreza rural en la última década
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Participatory Democracy and Effective Policy: Is There a Link? Evidence from Rural Peru
We examine the relationship between participatory democratic institutions and effective agricultural policy in rural Peruvian municipalities, using a unique quantitative dataset of 100 Peruvian municipalities at two points in time, allowing us to examine (a) bottom-up, grassroots participatory governance institutions, and (b) Peru’s top-down participatory budgeting reform implemented in all Peruvian sub-national governments in the […]
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Electrification and Educational Outcomes in Rural Peru
The authors study the effects of electrification on educational outcomes in Peru by taking advantage of a program that rapidly increased electricity coverage in rural areas. Using household survey panel data from 2007-2010, we document that: i) girls living in treated districts are more likely to be enrolled in school, and this effect is larger […]
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El proceso de certificación del pisco peruano: una propuesta de medición de sus principales efectos
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Extractive industries and local development in the Peruvian Highlands
During the last 20 years, the mining sector in Peru has been experiencing sustained growth. Using census, administrative, nationally and regionally representative data we compare districts in the Peruvian Highlands with a recent mining development with suitable counterfactuals. We find that the new mining activities attract migration inflows, and have some positive effects over educational […]
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Polarización y segregación en la distribución del ingreso en el Perú: trayectorias desiguales
In the last three decades, Peru experienced the greatest crisis in its republican history (dramatic internal conflict and hyperinflationary process) with a severe macroeconomic adjustment and a set of structural reforms, followed by a dictatorship and the deepening of the economic liberalization process and, finally, 10 years of sustained economic growth. The last decade has […]
