Publications of Assessing the impacts of a peer-to-peer training programme for women in Peru
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Assessing the impacts of a peer-to-peer training programme for women in Peru
This article reports on research that aimed to assess the economic and social impacts of a peer-to-peer training programme targeted to women in Peru, looking at overall and differentiated impacts according to design features, on a sample of 300 women in participant and non-participant communities. The study found significant positive impacts on women’s time devoted […]
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Ser joven en el Perú: educación y trabajo
Despite the sustained growth experienced by Peru during the last decade, there are still development indicators that require significant improvements. Among the most urgent, those of the labor market. Where about 80% of the household income is generated, 7 in 10 Peruvians work in informal jobs without any social protection. This situation is even more […]
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¿Protección social adaptativa? Desafío para la política en el Perú
Peru is one of the countries most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. In response, the Peruvian government has designed and implemented early warning and adaptation programs. However, climate change policy can be improved through the integration of social protection programs with climate change prevention and adaptation programs. This policy is known as adaptive […]
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Planificar la informalidad: herramientas para el desarrollo de mercados de “urbanizaciones informales planificadas”
About 30% of the population in developing countries live in informal urban settlements lacking adequate basic services, public spaces and urban equipment. The origin to most of these shortcomings can be traced to a single feature: the urban layout design.
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Inclusión económica y tributación territorial: el caso de las exoneraciones altonandinas
Aportes para mejorar la efectividad de las políticas dirigidas a impulsar la actividad económica y reducir la pobreza en zonas históricamente menos favorecidas.
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Adaptation to climate change in the tropical mountains? Effects of intraseasonal climate variability on crop diversification strategies in the Peruvian Andes
Crop diversification, selection of tolerant crops, and intercropping are some of the strategies that Andean farmers, as well as farmers in other mountain regions, have historically used to cope with climate-related risks and take advantage of heterogeneous agricultural land (with plots located at different altitudes, facing different environmental conditions). This study analyzes the role of […]
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Psychosocial status and cognitive achievement in Peru
This paper assesses the importance of psychosocial status in the accumulation of cognitive skills during the transition from mid to late childhood. The authors use longitudinal data from a cohort of 700 Peruvian children drawn from a very rich dataset, the Young Lives Survey, to test the impact of children’s perception of respect at the […]
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Accessing higher education in developing countries: Panel data analysis from India, Peru, and Vietnam
Researchers use unique individual-level panel data from India (Andhra Pradesh), Peru, and Vietnam on a cohort of individuals surveyed from the age of 8 years to 19 years to study factors affecting enrolment in higher education in these middle-income countries. We document (a) that similar to nationally representative data, the proportion having accessed higher education at this […]
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Cobertura, oportunidades y percepciones sobre la educación inclusiva en el Perú
The national literature shows that the educational coverage of the population with disabilities is lower than that of the general population, and that educational opportunities are less than those of their peers. Thus, the right to education of this group is still limited. This study contributes to enrich the information on the strengths and challenges […]
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Evaluación del diseño e implementación de la intervención de soporte pedagógico intercultural del Ministerio de Educación del Perú
Por encargo del Ministerio de Educación, y con el apoyo del Proyecto FORGE, GRADE asume la conducción de una evaluación de diseño y proceso de implementación de la intervención de Soporte Pedagógico Intercultural (SPI) bajo la supervisión y acompañamiento técnico de la Oficina de Seguimiento y Evaluación Estratégica (OSEE), responsable de coordinar el proceso de producción, […]
