Publications
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Young lives preliminary country report: Peru
The Young Lives Project is a longitudinal study in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam. In each of the countries, the first phase of the project included the first survey of 2,000 index children aged around one year and a survey of 1,000 children aged around eight years, evenly spread across 20 sentinel sites per country. […]
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Adverse geography and differences in welfare in Peru
In Peru, a country with an astonishing variety of different ecological areas, with 84 different climate zones and landscapes, with rainforests, high mountain ranges and dry deserts, the geographical context may not be all that matters, but it could be very significant in explaining regional variations in income and poverty. The major question this paper […]
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Are non-timber forest products the antidote to rainforest degradation?: Brazil nut extraction in Madre de Dios, Peru
This study explores the relationship between poverty and Amazonian forest management by Brazil nut harvesters in southeastern Peru. Although the poor rely more upon natural resource-based income than the rich, wealthier households use more forest wood and land than poorer ones. Contrary to the belief that exploitation of nontimber forest products can alleviate deforestation, this study finds that seasonal Brazil […]
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Los determinantes de la diversificación del ingreso no agrícola en el Perú rural
This article demonstrates that in rural Peru there has been a substantial growth in off-farm household employment over the last decade. Currently, 51% of the net income of rural households comes from this type of activity, and therefore it is clear that it cannot be considered “marginal”. Households have multiple reasons for diversifying their income. […]
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Vinculaciones entre pobreza y deterioro ambiental: el caso de los extractores de castaña en Madre de Dios, Perú
The paper explores the links between poverty and management of Amazonian forest resources by chestnut extractors in the Peruvian rainforest. Although there is evidence that the poor are more dependent on natural resources than the rich, demands on the natural resource base continue to grow with income so that richer households use forest resources, especially […]
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New institutions for agricultural and rural development in Latin America and the Caribbean
In a recent document, Piñeiro et al. (1999) review the recent history of the reforms of the agricultural public sector in Latin America, giving a more balanced view of the role of the state than the one prevailing in Washington circles in the 1990s. The authors analyse the first wave of reforms and the current […]
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Determinants and impacts of rural land market activity: evidence from Nicaragua
Use of data from Nicaragua to examine the performance of land rental and sales markets during 1995-98 which coincide with the implementation of major macroeconomic and sectoral reforms leads to three main conclusions.
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Privatización en el Perú: impacto en el desempeño de las empresas
In the nearly ten years since Peru privatized major State Owned Enterprises (SOEs), the overall impact of the process is not yet clear.
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Mercado de aguas y desarrollo agrario: explorando límites y posibilidades
Se argumenta que la difícil relación entre agricultura y mercados se origina en parte en las particularidades del sector agrario en general, con complicaciones adicionales para países en desarrollo como el Perú.
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