Publications
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Los caminos de la desigualdad en la escuela peruana / Población indígena y exclusión social en el Perú
Los caminos de la desigualdad en la escuela peruana / Población indígena y exclusión social en el Perú.
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Meeting the needs of the rural poor through post-reform financial markets
This paper presents the context of BASIS CRSP project, “The Structure and Performance of Rural Financial Markets and the Welfare of the Rural Poor,” which seeks to evaluate the performance of Mexico’s and Peru’s liberalized financial markets. The authors identify important characteristics of financial sector liberalization in these countries: -Elimination of price controls and state […]
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Young lives preliminary country report: Peru
The Young Lives Project is a longitudinal study in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam. In each of the countries, the first phase of the project included the first survey of 2,000 index children aged around one year and a survey of 1,000 children aged around eight years, evenly spread across 20 sentinel sites per country. […]
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Adverse geography and differences in welfare in Peru
In Peru, a country with an astonishing variety of different ecological areas, with 84 different climate zones and landscapes, with rainforests, high mountain ranges and dry deserts, the geographical context may not be all that matters, but it could be very significant in explaining regional variations in income and poverty. The major question this paper […]
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Are non-timber forest products the antidote to rainforest degradation?: Brazil nut extraction in Madre de Dios, Peru
This study explores the relationship between poverty and Amazonian forest management by Brazil nut harvesters in southeastern Peru. Although the poor rely more upon natural resource-based income than the rich, wealthier households use more forest wood and land than poorer ones. Contrary to the belief that exploitation of nontimber forest products can alleviate deforestation, this study finds that seasonal Brazil […]
