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Communities and spontaneous urban planning: a toolkit for urban expansion. Project summary
Most urbanization processes around developing countries are happening either by rural-urban migration, as it happened in Lima 25 years ago, or by high paced vegetative population growth among second and third-generation migrants, as it is happening now in Lima—and either form exerts pressure on relatively weak public institutions. State-sponsored urban planning is often absent, so […]
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Gobernanza forestal y sostenibilidad en la Amazonía: avances y desafíos de políticas en el Perú
Despite the change in the legal regime of 2001, forest management is still not very sustainable. In 2011, a new forestry law was approved (No. 29763). Which aspects of forest governance have improved and which are still a challenge are questions that this research seeks to answer. While this new law has brought substantial changes, […]
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Prevalencia de delitos en la población penal peruana: desorganización social versus aprendizaje social
The aim of the study is to identify the main factors that influence a person commits a type of crime. We will focus on two theories: social learning and social disorganization, comparing each other to determine which one is more important. A second objective is to study how crime’s main drivers and gender relate to […]
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¿La escuela reproduce las desigualdades?: segregación entre salones de clases
Most of the studies have focused on explaining the differences in educational achievements through the differences in the characteristics of schools. However, little have been done in assessing the gaps existing within the same schools. This paper’s objective is to assess how student segregation—the method of separating students in classrooms according to their grades—affects their […]
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Efectos del programa de transferencias condicionadas JUNTOS en el peso al nacer de los niños.
This paper assesses the effect of the Conditional Cash Transfer Program, JUNTOS, on neonatal health of children who were exposed to the Program while in utero. The paper also explores whether JUNTOS has improved the prenatal health care of pregnant women. Different estimation techniques are implemented, including difference-in-differences, maternal fixed effects, and instrumental variables approaches. […]
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Descentralización funcional y presupuestal de la educación pública en el Perú: un balance de avances y desafíos
The article presents a diagnosis of the funding and budget management of the public education in Peru in a context of a political decentralization process that has implied the transfer of education competencies and functions to the sub national governments. Based on the analysis of the legal framework, budget information and evidence obtained through case […]
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Derechos humanos y gobernabilidad democrática: oportunidades para la cooperación canadiense en el Perú
This study has two central objectives. The first is to offer an overview of the human rights situation in the country, and of the public policies that protect and promote them. In particular, attention has been paid to the scenarios related to the transitional justice process (in terms of the guidelines of the Truth and […]
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