Publications of Miguel Jaramillo
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Improving Health and Education Through CCTs
This brief describes how Latin American countries have used CCTs to improve health and education, the results achieved, and lessons learned for improving health and education in other settings.
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The changing role of international cooperation in developing countries (as they develop): A case study of skills development policies in Peru.
A focus on the changes in the relationship between international cooperation and local actors in the skills development field in Peru as the country strengthened its financial position in the last two decades allows us to examine the role of the economic factor in these changes.
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Impacto del programa Juntos sobre nutrición temprana
Si bien se evidencian mejoras en los indicadores nutricionales de los niños afiliados al programa Juntos, la pregunta de la investigación es: ¿hasta qué punto estas mejoras serían consecuencia del programa?
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Impacto del programa Juntos sobre nutrición temprana
An extensive literature suggests that investments in early stages of the life cycle have long-term implications on accumulated human capital, which in turn has effects on the performance of individuals in the labour market. This paper explores the impact of the conditional cash transfer programme Juntos on the nutritional status of children under 5 years […]
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Designing an Effective CCT
This brief analyses the most important CCT design elements from the Latin American experience: the target population, incentives and conditionalities, and entry and exit rules to help other countries as they make design decisions to adapt CCTs to their own contexts.
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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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Inequality in post-structural reform Peru: the role of market forces and public policy
Latin America is often singled out for its high and persistent income inequality. Toward the end of the 1990s, however, income concentration began to fall across the region. Of the seventeen countries for which comparable data are available, twelve have experienced a decline, particularly since 2000. This book is among the first efforts to understand […]
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Evaluating interventions to reduce maternal mortality: evidence from Peru’s PARSalud programme
This paper evaluates the impact of an intervention oriented to reduce maternal mortality in Peru. The paper takes advantage of both spatial and temporal variation in the implementation of the programme to identify its effects. Results suggest a positive impact of the training provided by the programme on the number of deliveries, deliveries using oxytocin, […]
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Pobreza e impactos heterogéneos de las políticas activas del empleo juvenil: el caso de PROJOVEN en el Perú
This study analyses the relationship between household poverty and the impacts of active employment promotion policies in Peru. In particular, we analyse the PROJOVEN Youth Employment Training Programme, which, since 1996, has directly benefited close to 50,000 poor youth. The poverty status of PROJOVEN beneficiaries is approximated with an index based on 21 household assets. […]
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