Publications of Del plan al proyecto urbano. Reestructurar la ciudad o las políticas públicas
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Del plan al proyecto urbano. Reestructurar la ciudad o las políticas públicas
Reflexión sobre la relación entre el contexto histórico, socio económico y político de la ciudad y las herramientas de planificación con que se opera. El capítulo busca advertir las especificidades del contexto peruano y, sobre la base de la experiencia de los proyectos urbanos integral (PUI), pensar el qué y el cómo de las herramientas […]
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Determinantes de la fragmentación de la inversión pública urbana: evidencia empírica en los barrios populares de Lima
The article presents empirical research that analyses the social, political and administrative factors that diminish the efficiency and effectiveness of the National Public Investment System (SNIP), resulting in the limited scope and inadequate prioritisation of public works in human settlements.
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Otro urbanismo para Lima: más allá del mejoramiento de barrios
A set of articles that analyse, from various points of view and disciplines, the different aspects involved in the development of the integral urban project area of the metropolitan programme Barrio Mío. Its main contribution is to show and analyse the approach and the concrete and complete methodology with which urban planning in the working-class […]
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Social media instruments and the promotion of financial inclusion in peruvian rural areas
This study seeks to evaluate the use of short soap operas as a mechanism to promote the use of formal savings accounts among poor rural women that have been secularly excluded from healthy interactions with the formal financial sector. The authors developed a short soap opera (telenovela), named Josefa, which transmitted pro-savings messages using characters […]
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Collective land rights: an essential asset for Pastoral communities in order to sustain their livelihoods and the environment in the Andean Altiplano
Considering communal or condominium land tenure regimes enable sustainable pastoral production systems, public policy should be re-oriented to support pastoralist families’ collective land right access.
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Promoting prenatal health care in poor rural areas through conditional cash transfers: evidence from JUNTOS in Peru
The authors assess the effects of JUNTOS, a conditional cash transfer program targeted to poor rural households in Peru, on the utilization of prenatal health care by women exposed to the program during their most recent pregnancy. They implement a difference-in-differences estimation technique to uncover the effects of JUNTOS on the utilization of prenatal health […]
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Instituciones, normas sociales y comportamiento
Are institutions having the effect that we intended? In recent years, the economics literature has revealed the role that incentives and non-material motivations play in affecting the behavior of economic agents. While some actions are performed due to their intrinsic value, some are carried out because of the information they convey about the actor, and […]
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Cambio global, alta montaña y adaptación: una aproximación social y geográfica
The present study documents main advances in three areas: institutional, scientific knowledge production, and adaptation projects for confronting climate change in Peru. The analysis of a case study in the Cordillera Blanca brings to light the problems and constraints that can be faced by adaptation projects implemented under a sectorial viewpoint lacking sufficient scientific and […]
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Minería, Estado y comunidades: cambios institucionales en el último ciclo de expansión extractiva en el Perú. Un balance de investigación
The most recent cycle of mining expansion in Peru has been characterized by dramatic growth in the mining sector and the proliferation of conflicts between groups seeking control of the extraction of natural resources and of mining income. What were the main institutional and political transformations that emerged during the last mining cycle? Can those […]
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La carrera docente en el Perú
This chapter examines recent advances and the remaining challenges in the teaching career in Peru. We explore the conditions of those studying to become teachers: their initial training, job access, and working conditions as teachers. To do this, we review both the national literature as well as part of the Latin American literature, and explore […]
