Policy brief
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Expansión de las microfinanzas en zonas rurales de América Latina
The inclusion of rural populations in financial markets has long been a social objective of developing countries worldwide. Indeed, pioneering work in the field of microfinance initially focused on rural areas. This brief analyses the impacts of microfinance in rural areas through evidence on rural poverty, as well as the positive effects on consumption and […]
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Innovaciones institucionales y normativas para el desarrollo de las microfinanzas en América Latina
The current performance of the microfinance sector is related to the financial sector reforms in Latin American countries, which started in the late 1980s. Prior to these reforms, the development of microfinance was limited by the excessive regulation of the financial sector, which was mainly based on state involvement. The optimisation of the regulatory framework […]
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Innovaciones tecnológicas en las microfinanzas en América Latina
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Does the cradle set the opportunities and educative achievement? A look to the Peruvian case
This paper aims to contribute to the design of policies to reduce inequality in the Peruvian education system by analysing the association between students’ socio-economic status (NSE), learning opportunities (ODA) and educational achievement.
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Spotlight on publications: labour market policies in Latin America
The publications presented in this Spotlight represent some of the key resources dealing with issues related to labour market policies in Latin America. The selected publications focus on the following topics: Gender and Labour; Impact Evaluations; Labour Intermediation Services; Active and Passive Labour Market Policies and Programmes; and Labour Market Regulations and Development.
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Spotlight on organisations: labour market policies in Latin America
This spotlight highlights some of the key organisations working on labour market issues in Latin America, including labour policy in general, social protection, employment, youth employment, labour training, labour migration, and labour intermediation. The Spotlight has been divided between international organisations that address labour markets and other issues, and those organisations focusing solely on labour […]
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Demanda social por programas de atención y educación de la primera infancia (AEPI) en el Perú
Providing relevant information for planning the scaling up of AEPI programme services through the perceptions and opinions of key stakeholders in two regions of the country.
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Labour market information programmes
Within the liberal economic model that spread across Latin America during the 1990s, free and open markets were considered the main mechanism for resource allocation. In this context, Latin American governments focused not on providing employment opportunities, but on supporting the workings of the labour market. One area where labour market failure had been identified […]
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Peru’s ProJoven Training Programme
ProJoven (Programa Nacional de Empleo Juvenil) is an archetypal demand-driven, private sector-engaged training programme of the 1990s that succeeded in reaching its target beneficiaries. Conceived as a social programme of the Ministry of Labour, ProJoven trained, in the short term, young people from households below the poverty line. Empirical evidence shows that the programme had […]
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¿Tiene el presupuesto participativo algún impacto en la calidad de los servicios públicos? El caso del sector del agua y saneamiento
Contributions to the debate on the effect of citizen participation in budgetary decisions on the quality of public service through the analysis of the link between the municipal participatory budget (PP) and indicators of coverage and quality of water and sanitation service in Peru.
