Publications of CCT Programmes: An Overview of the Latin American Experience
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CCT Programmes: An Overview of the Latin American Experience
This guide provides an overview to CCT programmes in Latin America, including their history, objectives and use, evidence of their impact, and finally, the main lessons coming out of Latin America that can be useful for policymakers considering implementing CCTs in their own countries.
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Mejora efectiva de la educación básica en las zonas rurales del Perú
Se analizan distintos modelos exitosos de intervención sobre escuelas rurales: AprenDes, PROMEB, Construyendo Escuelas Exitosas, Fe y Alegría.
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Teachers’ Salaries in Latin America: How Much Are They (Under or Over) Paid?
The paper documents the extent to which teachers are underpaid vis-à-vis workers in other professional and technical occupations in Latin America circa 2007. These labor earnings differences, attributed to observable socio-demographic and job characteristics, are assessed using a matching methodology (Ñopo, 2008). Teachers’ underpayment is found to be stronger than what has been previously reported […]
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Educating Latin American economists
Graduate economic programmes in Latin America have evolved along the lines of two different traditions: one closely linked to the current economic mainstream (being in that sense ‘global’) and the other more local and heterodox. The paper provides an overview of perceptions, interests, concerns and opinions of global Latin American graduate economic programmes, comparing them […]
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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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Gender Earnings Gaps in the World
The paper documents gender disparities in labor earnings for sixty-four countries around the world. Disparities are partially attributed to gender differences in observable socio-demographic and job characteristics. These characteristics are used to match males and females such that gender earnings disparities are computed only among individuals with the same characteristics, as in Ñopo (2008). After […]
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La descentralización educativa en Piura: la experiencia de la municipalización de la educación en Paita
La experiencia de municipalización educativa en Paita vía la comparación con el caso de Talara y enfatizando el vínculo entre la municipalidad, la UGEL, la Dirección Regional de Educación (DRE) y el Gobierno Regional de Piura.
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Estrategias de conservación a lo largo de la carretera Interoceánica en Madre de Dios, Perú
En este estudio se muestra que en la región Madre de Dios existe un gran potencial de conservar los bosques y la biodiversidad a un costo relativamente reducido.
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La escuela frente al cambio: el caso de un programa de intervención educativa en la sierra norte del Perú
A partir de la visita a las aulas, se ofrecen elementos para analizar qué ocurre en las áreas de este ámbito educativo peruano y para conocer la interacción entre hacedores de política, actores locales y entorno.
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Del dicho al hecho hay mucho trecho: una análisis de la implementación de la Política Nacional de Educación Bilingüe Intercultural en Puno, Peru
A partir de la visita a las aulas, se ofrecen elementos para analizar qué ocurre en las áreas de este ámbito educativo peruano y para conocer la interacción entre hacedores de política, actores locales y entorno.
