Publications
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Minería hoy / Hacia una reforma integral de la capacitación
Minería hoy: la bonanza que no hay que desperdiciar / Hacia una reforma integral de la capacitación.
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The role of public infrastructure in lowering transaction costs
This chapter analyses the impact of transaction costs for rural households’ welfare, devoting attention to the causes and implications of the lack of spatial and vertical integration of product and factor markets. Based on an innovative procedure for a disaggregated analysis of the transport, information, negotiation and monitoring costs of farmers incorporated in the potato […]
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Economic opportunities for indigenous peoples in rural and urban Peru
This paper examines the factors that determine the income-generating activities of indigenous households in Peru and assesses how social networks affect these economic decisions.
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Lecciones de políticas y programas para la agricultura familiar
This chapter consists of five sections, in addition to the introduction. Section 2 describes the conceptual and methodological framework that the various studies commissioned have adopted when assessing the impacts that the programs studied have had on family farming (AF for short in Spanish). Section 3 summarizes the basic characteristics of the programs chosen as […]
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Ambiguity aversion as a predictor of technology choice: experimental evidence from Peru
The lack of adoption of new farming technologies despite known benefis is a well-documented phenomenon in development economics.
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Trade liberalization and children: understanding and coping with children’s vulnerabilities
The arguments in favor of trade liberalization are well known: it promotes the efficient allocation of resources through comparative advantage, allows the dissemination of knowledge and technological progress, and encourages competition. Trade liberalization is likely to have a major impact on the lives of poor children and their families. Although this effect may be positive […]
