Publications of The default privatization of peruvian education and the rise of low-fee private schools: better or worse opportunities for the poor?
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The default privatization of peruvian education and the rise of low-fee private schools: better or worse opportunities for the poor?
The study on which this paper is based set out to explore what was happening in the lowfee private schooling sector in Perú—a growing and un-explored area of public education in the country and in many parts of the developing world—and, more specifi cally, at how parents from poor backgrounds make decisions and navigate the […]
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Impacts of the Peruvian Conditional Cash Transfer Programme on women’s empowerment: a quantitative and qualitative approach
The authors present the early findings from an ongoing evaluation that seeks to identify the impact of Peru’s Juntos programme on women’s empowerment. The study focuses on three empowerment dimensions: decision-making on household resources; freedom of movement; and gender roles and ideology (including perceptions of rights, rejection of male domination, and domestic violence).
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Combining social protection with economic opportunities in rural Peru: Haku Wiñay
The authors assess the impact of the Haku Wiñay programme (Mi chacra emprendedora), an intervention that provides productive technical assistance and a small asset transfer to rural households in the districts that are also covered by the Juntos programme, Peru’s conditional cash transfer (CCT). Haku Wiñay focuses on the development of productive and entrepreneurial skills […]
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Agricultura peruana: nuevas miradas desde el Censo Agropecuario
This book presents the findings of four studies led by GRADE researchers as part of a project that seeks to broaden and deepen the analysis of the results of the IV Agricultural Census 2012. Each of the topics analysed represents a diverse and complex look at processes and relationships that are established both within the […]
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Estructura agraria y dinámica de pobreza rural en el Perú
Using a provincial panel for the period between the agricultural censuses of 1994 and 2012, this study aims to clarify the sign of the relationship between agrarian structure and rural poverty dynamics in Peru. The descriptive results reveal that the provinces with significant reductions in rural poverty rates are those whose agricultural units had, at […]
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Estudio Especializado sobre Población Afroperuana (EEPA)
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Participation in the Juntos Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Peru is associated with changes in child anthropometric status but not language development or school achievement
It is unclear what effects a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program would have on child anthropometry, language development, or school achievement in the context of the nutrition transition experienced by many low- andmiddle-income countries. In this study the authors estimated the association of participation in Peru’s Juntos CCT with anthropometry, language development, and school achievement […]
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Crecimiento y segmentación en el Perú
Contributions for the design of labor policies through the analysis of the impact of informality on the segmentation and quality indicators of employment during the last decade.
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Efecto de un suplemento nutricional a base de lípidos en los niveles de hemoglobina e indicadores antropométricos en niños de cinco distritos de Huánuco, Perú
This study aims to determine the effect of consumption of a lipid-based nutrient supplement (LNS) on hemoglobin levels, anemia and anthropometric indicators in children aged six to eleven months old in five districts in the province of Ambo in the region of Huanuco, Peru
