Chapter in Book
-
Factores asociados al rendimiento escolar y sus implicancias para la política educativa del Perú
Sorry, this entry is only available in Español.
-
Schooling in Peru
It is in this sense that the history of education in Peru can be said to have been dominated by contradictory dynamics. On one hand, increasing educational expansion, especially during the second half of the twentieth century, has been associated with an extension of social opportunities. On the other hand, the education system, since its […]
-
-
Measuring targeting performance through public expenditure tracking surveys: Peru
First we assess the level at which Peru’s public spending targets poverty. Following a broad analysis of geographic targeting patterns, we quantify the extent to which safety net programs actually do reach their intended beneficiaries on the basis of household surveys.We estimate the overall progressivity or regressivity of the main social programs and, finally, address […]
-
-
-
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 […]
-
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.
-
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 […]
-
