Publications of Places for place-based policy
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Places for place-based policy
Place-based policy is both ubiquitous and widely criticised. The conventional economic case against place-targeted interventions is strong, relegating its application to a narrow range of cases of immobile labour resources, market imperfections and/or other externalities. However, both internationally and domestically, equity considerations lead to policies and programmes for disadvantaged regions and their populations. Budget constraints […]
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Las organizaciones de la población afrodescendiente en el Perú: discursos de identidad y demandas de reconocimiento
La presente publicación contiene los resultados de un estudio sobre el desarrollo de las org
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La incidencia del gasto social y los impuestos en el Perú
Improving the effectiveness of fiscal policy with respect to redistribution and poverty reduction is key to Peru’s equitable development. Recent studies suggest that public transfers and grants are responsible for only one tenth of the poverty reduction achieved in the last decade. By analyzing the incidence of taxes and transfers based on household survey data, […]
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The incidence of social spending and taxes in Peru
Standard tax and benefit incidence analysis is used to estimate the effects of fiscal policy on poverty and inequality in Peru. Results suggest that the extent of inequality and poverty reduction induced by Peru’s fiscal policy is small. Results also suggest that the small impact is associated with low social spending rather than with inefficient […]
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¿Cómo afectan los factores individuales y escolares la decisión de los jóvenes de postular a educación superior? Un estudio longitudinal en Lima, Perú
The results suggest that a set of individual and school factors predict young people’s post-secondary enrolment one year after graduating from secondary school. Students who have at least one parent with higher education are almost twice as likely to apply to higher education as their peers whose parents have only primary education, while students from […]
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Getting teachers back to the classroom: a systematic review on what works to improve teacher attendance in developing countries
This article reports on a systematic review of research on the effectiveness of interventions aimed at increasing teacher attendance in developing countries. After a comprehensive search process, nine studies met the inclusion criteria. Pooled effects sizes of included studies were estimated (with the exception of three studies that had unavailable information to calculate their effect […]
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Impacto económico de la desnutrición crónica, aguda y global en el Perú
Objectives. To estimate the economic impact of chronic, acute and global malnutrition in Peru. Materials and methods. This study, through an econometric model, estimated the economic impact of child malnutrition in two time horizons (incidental retrospective and prospective) during 2011, considering malnutrition-associated costs of health, education and productivity for the Peruvian economy. Information collected is […]
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Extractive industries and local development in the Peruvian highlands
During the last twenty 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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The structural relationship between nutrition, cognitive and non-cognitive skills: evidence from four developing countries
Sánchez studies the way in which cognitive and non-cognitive skills are simultaneously acquired in the transition from childhood to adolescence using longitudinal data from four countries: Peru, India, Vietnam and Ethiopia.
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Employment growth and segmentation in Peru, 2001–2011: country case study on labour market segmentation
This study aims to identify how the performance of the labour market, and labour market institutions and policies have affected labour market segmentation in the last decade. It also provides evidence on what labour market duality means in terms of job quality indicators. To do so, we use household survey data for the period 2001-2010 […]
