Publications
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Más allá de los nini. Los jóvenes urbano-vulnerables en el Perú
In recent decades, the term nini —referring to young people who neither study nor work— has become part of academic discussions and debates on what policies should be implemented to address the needs of young people who are vulnerable to social exclusion. However, in a context such as the Peruvian one, in which informality reaches […]
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Balance de noticias: Noticias sobre educación con lentes de género
El balance que presentamos a continuación se basa en un análisis de noticias que han sido publicadas en diferentes medios entre los meses de enero a diciembre del año 2016 y se inscribe en la línea del balance presentado en marzo del 2016 que abordó noticias de educación del año 2015. De hecho, tanto el […]
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Urbanization Patterns, Information Diffusion, and Female Voting in Rural Paraguay
Researchers use a field experiment to evaluate the impact of two informational get-out-the-vote campaigns to boost female electoral participation in rural areas of Paraguay. They find that public rallies had a small and insignificant effect either on registration or voter turnout in the 2013 presidential elections. Households that received door-to-door canvassing treatment were 4.6 percentage points more likely […]
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Planning informality: promoting a market of planned informal settlements
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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Market- and government-based higher education reforms in Latin America: the cases of Peru and Ecuador, 2008–2016
National higher education systems have undergone a series of transformations in recent decades. Since the 1980s, regulatory systems governing higher education have witnessed a number of changes. In particular, there has been a shift away from a model of state control, to one of state oversight, in which the state designs a framework of rules […]
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Health impacts of a public-private partnership rural roads maintenance programme
The authors provide evidence of health impacts of a public-private rural roads maintenance programme in Peru, which is characterized by a contracting mechanism that employs small local firms. Using a difference‐in‐differences approach, they find that improved roads connectivity leads to positive health externalities.
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La secundaria rural: una evaluación de sus formas de atención diversificada
At the request of the Ministry of Education, the FORGE project evaluated three forms of diversified care in Rural Secondary Education with the aim of analysing whether their design was relevant to the objectives set and to what extent their implementation responded to what was planned. This article presents the results of this evaluation.
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Programa Internacional para la Evaluación de los Estudiantes PISA 2015
El presente informe nacional analiza los resultados principales de PISA 2015 para nuestro país, tomando en cuenta nuestra realidad y contexto. La información brindada es muy valiosa para apoyar los esfuerzos que se realizan con el fin de alcanzar una educación de calidad para todos.
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Communities and spontaneous urban planning: a toolkit for urban expansion. Project summary
Most urbanization processes around developing countries are happening either by rural-urban migration, as it happened in Lima 25 years ago, or by high paced vegetative population growth among second and third-generation migrants, as it is happening now in Lima—and either form exerts pressure on relatively weak public institutions. State-sponsored urban planning is often absent, so […]
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Mining Formalization at the Margins of the State: Small‐scale Miners and State Governance in the Peruvian Amazon
This article analyses the Peruvian government’s quest to formalize small‐scale mining in the Amazon as a political process which shows how state governance problems are reproduced in the margins of the state. It asks why the central state is unable to govern mining activities in the Madre de Dios region, and examines how small‐scale miners […]
