Publications of Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes
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Using Pseudo‐Panels To Measure Income Mobility In Latin America
The paper presents a comparative overview of mobility patterns in 14 Latin American countries between 1992 and 2003. Using three alternative econometric techniques on constructed pseudo-panels, the paper provides a set of estimators for the traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest very […]
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Evaluación de los programas de apoyo a las Pyme en Perú
This report is the result of a research project that strictly evaluates the net impacts of participation in small and medium enterprise (SME) programmes in four Latin American countries: Chile, Mexico, Colombia and Peru. The objective of the research was to determine which programmes improve SME performance and to obtain information as to why some […]
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Oportunidades y riesgos de la transferencia del servicio Wawa Wasi a los Gobiernos Locales Provinciales
This study analyses the opportunities and risks of the unfinished transfer of the Wawa Wasi service —which serves children aged six months to four years— to Local Provincial Governments. The research, carried out from June to December 2008, included a review of the regulations issued for this process, as well as interviews with stakeholders in […]
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Formando microempresarias: impacto de la capacitación empresarial en las instituciones de microfinanzas y sus socias
Medición del impacto marginal de un componente de capacitación en gestión empresarial en un programa de servicios financieros que atiende a mujeres microempresarias peruanas vía la metodología de bancos comunales.
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Algunas reflexiones sobre el programa Juntos
The following is a brief description of Juntos and what is known about the program, based on some recent studies. It then summarizes the results of a study that focuses on the role of the supply of services associated with Juntos conditionalities. The objective is, based on what is known from the studies considered, to […]
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The uses and abuses of social programmes: the case of conditional cash transfers
Conditional cash tranfer programmes are promoted as best practice in the social sector for fighting poverty. However, autonomy and discretion make them vulnerable to corruption when beneficiaries and programme officers falsify information to receive tranfers, or politicians use them to get votes. Consistent programme design aligned with clear criteria for targeting households, effective complaint mechanisms […]
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Local accountability and the Peruvian Vaso de Leche program
This study seeks to avoid the weaknesses of prior work. Rather than comparing across space or across time, with all of the inherent limitations in establishing effective control variables, this study examines a single country, Peru, and a single time period, 2002, and focuses on a single program, the Vaso de Leche (glass of milk). […]
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Psychosocial status and cognitive achievement in Peru
This paper presents the results of a quantitative analysis that measured the relationship between psychosocial status at the age of 8, and the development of cognitive skills four years later.
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La era de la productividad: Cómo transformar las economías desde sus cimientos
“La era de la productividad” describe de qué manera la baja productividad de América Latina y el Caribe impide que la región se ponga a la par de los países del mundo desarrollado. Los autores indagan más allá de las explicaciones macroeconómicas tradicionales y profundizan hasta llegar al nivel de las industrias y las empresas […]
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Discrimination in Latin America : An Economic Perspective
The chapters presented in that volume adopt a variety of these methodological tools in order to explore the extent to which discrimination against women and demographic minorities is pervasive in Latin America. In chapter two, Castillo, Petrie, and Torero present a series of experiments to understand the nature of discrimination in urban Lima, Peru. They […]
