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Hydrosocial territories, agro-export and water scarcity: capitalist territorial transformations and water governance in Peru’s coastal valleys
In recent decades, an agro-export boom has deeply transformed Peru’s coastal valleys, resulting in dramatic territorial changes and social inequality in the Ica Valley. This article explains how politico-economic and socio-institutional forces have triggered the emergence of a new ‘hydrosocial territory’, transforming the Ica Valley into a virtual-water extraction zone that produces luxury export crops […]
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Land tenure and the sustainability of pastoral production systems: a comparative analysis of the Andean Altiplano and the East African savannah
Pastoral communities are facing mounting pressure on their livelihoods due to misconceptions about pastoralism and global trends including population growth and climate change. In this context, this article seeks to establish a correlation between pastoral land tenure systems and the sustainability of pastoralism as a production system. Using a comparative approach, researchers develop a taxonomy to first […]
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Design, Validation, and Application of a Questionnaire on Media Education for Teachers in Training
This article details the process of design, validation and application (N = 501) of an ad-hoc questionnaire that measures Peruvian teachers’ knowledge, attitudes, and reasoning in training on media education. With regards to the method, several psychometric validation techniques were applied and the results were analyzed using descriptive statistics. The results showed a high level […]
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Exploring the association between segregation and physical intimate partner violence in Lima, Peru: the mediating role of gender norms and social capital
Intimate partner violence (IPV) has been globally recognized as a major public health problem. A growing body of evidence has identified a significant relationship between living in a neighborhood of concentrated disadvantage and experiencing IPV. Considering the increasing rates of poverty and segregation registered in Latin American cities, research on the effects of segregation on […]
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Do children benefit from internet access? Experimental evidence from Peru
This paper provides experimental evidence for the impact of home internet access on a broad range of child outcomes in Peru. The authors compare children who were randomly chosen to receive laptops with high-speed internet access to (i) those who did not receive laptops and (ii) those who only received laptops without internet. Researchers find […]
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Young women and higher education in Peru: how does gender shape their educational trajectories?
In the last 20 years, a reversal of the gender gap in higher education (HE) has been observed both in developed and developing countries. Nowadays, more women than men are studying HE. Nevertheless, averages tend to high disparities and gender gaps are still observed when indicators take poverty and ethnicity into account. This paper uses […]
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Relación entre embarazo adolescente y maternidad adolescente y resultados educativos y laborales: una aproximación a partir de datos de la ENDES
A pesar de las mejoras observadas en el país en una serie de indicadores sociales y económicos, la prevalencia de madres adolescentes es alta (14,3% en 2017 según la metodología propuesta en este estudio), especialmente en zonas rurales (23,7%, versus 11,8% en zonas urbanas el 2017). Además de su magnitud, destaca el nivel de persistencia de esta prevalencia, la […]
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A new deal to finance LATAM education
Education learning outcomes in Latin America and the Caribbean (LATAM) are still insufficient and unequally distributed. Several factors are behind this situation, many of which relate to education funding: low absolute expenditure per student; increasing gaps in spending levels between developed and developing countries; unequal distribution of key education inputs; inefficient use of pedagogical resources and […]
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Smarter through social protection? Evaluating the impact of Ethiopia’s safety-net on child cognitive abilities
Ethiopia’s productive safety net is the second largest Social Protection Program in sub-Saharan Africa and has been rolled out to almost 10 million beneficiaries since 2005; its effects are therefore of general interest. We provide the first estimates of its impact on children’s cognitive abilities. To identify impacts of this program, we exploit four rounds […]
