Publications
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The incidence of social spending and taxes in Peru
Standard tax and benefit incidence analysis is used to estimate the effects of fiscal policy on poverty and inequality in Peru. Results suggest that the extent of inequality and poverty reduction induced by Peru’s fiscal policy is small. This result is associated with low social spending rather than with inefficient spending. Most social spending components […]
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International Human Rights Protection: institutions and instruments
The report is aimed at mapping out relevant institutions for the protection of human rights at the national, regional and international levels, including governmental as well as non-governmental organisations. It equally aims to present the instruments used at different levels, especially global and regional treaties as well as political agreements and non-binding instruments. Therefore, the report […]
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Estado de la cuestión sobre experiencias y buenas prácticas internacionales en materia de Bienestar Docente
La Dirección General de Desarrollo Docente (DIGEDD) del Ministerio de Educación tiene entre sus funciones el diseño de políticas de evaluación, trayectoria y bienestar docente en una perspectiva de desarrollo profesional permanente. Con la finalidad de contribuir al diseño de políticas públicas orientadas a la revalorización y bienestar de los docentes del sistema educativo público […]
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Marco de referencia común sobre gestión educativa descentralizada, territorio y enfoque territorial
La Mesa Interinstitucional de Gestión y Descentralización del Consejo Nacional de Educación identificó, a través de sus diversos encuentros con actores regionales nacionales, la necesidad del fortalecimiento de la gestión descentralizada, en un contexto donde el proceso de descentralización afronta nuevos retos y se encuentra en una fase diferente, que se caracteriza por un conjunto […]
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Places for place-based policy
Place-based policy is both ubiquitous and widely criticised. The conventional economic case against place-targeted interventions is strong, relegating its application to a narrow range of cases of immobile labour resources, market imperfections and/or other externalities. However, both internationally and domestically, equity considerations lead to policies and programmes for disadvantaged regions and their populations. Budget constraints […]
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Las organizaciones de la población afrodescendiente en el Perú: discursos de identidad y demandas de reconocimiento
La presente publicación contiene los resultados de un estudio sobre el desarrollo de las org
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La incidencia del gasto social y los impuestos en el Perú
Improving the effectiveness of fiscal policy with respect to redistribution and poverty reduction is key to Peru’s equitable development. Recent studies suggest that public transfers and grants are responsible for only one tenth of the poverty reduction achieved in the last decade. By analyzing the incidence of taxes and transfers based on household survey data, […]
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The incidence of social spending and taxes in Peru
Standard tax and benefit incidence analysis is used to estimate the effects of fiscal policy on poverty and inequality in Peru. Results suggest that the extent of inequality and poverty reduction induced by Peru’s fiscal policy is small. Results also suggest that the small impact is associated with low social spending rather than with inefficient […]
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¿Cómo afectan los factores individuales y escolares la decisión de los jóvenes de postular a educación superior? Un estudio longitudinal en Lima, Perú
The results suggest that a set of individual and school factors predict young people’s post-secondary enrolment one year after graduating from secondary school. Students who have at least one parent with higher education are almost twice as likely to apply to higher education as their peers whose parents have only primary education, while students from […]
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Getting teachers back to the classroom: a systematic review on what works to improve teacher attendance in developing countries
This article reports on a systematic review of research on the effectiveness of interventions aimed at increasing teacher attendance in developing countries. After a comprehensive search process, nine studies met the inclusion criteria. Pooled effects sizes of included studies were estimated (with the exception of three studies that had unavailable information to calculate their effect […]
