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The Making and Unmaking of Education Reforms in Countries with Weak States
The centrality of the state for education policy analysis is a well-established idea. But many analyses take for granted what appear to be the traits of stronger states, with strong institutions and capacities to define, legitimise and implement policy agendas. Such assumptions are problematic when considering the role of the state in education in Latin […]
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Food distribution models in Latin America: Unraveling the effects of physical access on food security
This chapter examines the role of food distribution channels in shaping physical access and its impact on food security in Latin America. The authors argue that the structure of downstream food supply chains—the relative prominence of modern supermarkets, traditional markets, and intermediate local stores—plays a critical but underexplored part in determining affordability and dietary choices. […]
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Interrupción escolar en secundaria en el Perú: datos, evidencia y políticas
Discontinuation of schooling by students in secondary education in Peru is a critical problem that impacts the development of young people and their future opportunities. Despite advances in educational coverage, structural challenges persist that unequally affect different groups of students. This paper examines trends in secondary school dropout, its main causes and the public policies […]
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The crisis and the market: regulating Peru’s ungoverned private education market
Since the mid-1990s, Peru has undergone a process of default educational privatization, with the private education market now accounting for more than a quarter of the country’s enrolments. Such growth has taken place in an extremely loose and disorganized regulatory context, resulting in an extremely heterogeneous private education market, both in terms of supply and […]
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Policy implementation in a sisyphean state: improving pedagogical practice in Perú through the Soporte Pedagógico programme
The need to reform pedagogical practice in Peruvian schools has been on the country’s policy agenda at least since the mid-1990s. Since then, the country has undergone several attempts at reform through curriculum change and various in-service training attempts that relied on top-down implementation models and achieved only partial changes. In 2013, an innovative programme […]
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Movilidad y dinámicas socioeconómicas en la provincia de Yauyos: evidencia sobre impactos de la pandemia covid 19 y sus secuelas en la población rural
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Impactos y desafíos del monitoreo comunitario ambiental en contextos de industria minera en el Perú y Chile
In this chapter, the authors explore the impact of community environmental monitoring (MCA) in territories with a long history of mining in Peru and Chile. They find that this initiative has a positive impact on the political empowerment of local communities, which turn it into a tool to regain control of their environment through environmental […]
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Conflictos y consensos: los múltiples matices de la exclusión minera en el Perú
This chapter seeks to demonstrate that the delimitation of areas with mining restrictions promoted by the Peruvian state apparatus does not always enjoy the social legitimacy and institutional effectiveness necessary to guarantee the exclusion of mining in areas of high economic, cultural or socio-ecosystemic value. In contrast, exclusion zones established by social movements with high […]





