Publications
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Labour market information programmes
Within the liberal economic model that spread across Latin America during the 1990s, free and open markets were considered the main mechanism for resource allocation. In this context, Latin American governments focused not on providing employment opportunities, but on supporting the workings of the labour market. One area where labour market failure had been identified […]
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Peru’s ProJoven Training Programme
ProJoven (Programa Nacional de Empleo Juvenil) is an archetypal demand-driven, private sector-engaged training programme of the 1990s that succeeded in reaching its target beneficiaries. Conceived as a social programme of the Ministry of Labour, ProJoven trained, in the short term, young people from households below the poverty line. Empirical evidence shows that the programme had […]
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¿Tiene el presupuesto participativo algún impacto en la calidad de los servicios públicos? El caso del sector del agua y saneamiento
Contributions to the debate on the effect of citizen participation in budgetary decisions on the quality of public service through the analysis of the link between the municipal participatory budget (PP) and indicators of coverage and quality of water and sanitation service in Peru.
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Improving Environmental Management of Extractives through Environmental Impact Assessments
The Brief focuses on three particularly noteworthy innovations implemented in Peru: mine closure plans; regulation and approval mechanisms; and citizen participation.
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From supply- to demand-led: labour training in Latin America
Over the past two decades, most Latin American countries began to see the need to reform their labour training systems. Up until this time, traditional training in Latin America had been supply-driven, with large-sized public sector institutions providing training based on what they perceived was needed within a state-led industrial development framework. Graduates of these […]
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What to do next: an exploratory study of the post-secondary decisions of American students
Research on college choices is the new tool used by Higher Educational Institutions to help them identify the influences and factors affecting potential student populations. To measure the growing rate of working students in higher education, we propose to examine the
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Las políticas TIC en los sistemas educativos de América Latina: el caso Perú
Este Mimeo presenta un estudio de caso sobre las políticas TIC en la educación peruana. Se trata de un ámbito relativamente nuevo de la política educativa que se inicia durante la década de 1990.
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¿Tiene el presupuesto participativo algún efecto en la calidad de los servicios públicos? El caso del sector del agua y saneamiento en el Perú
Citizen participation should direct the public investment needs of the population, particularly for the benefit of the poorest. This is how the participatory budgeting (PP for its acronym in Spanish) process implemented in Peru in 2004 is conceived. However, this study finds that there is no evidence to suggest a robust relationship between PP and […]
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Impacto de la licencia municipal en el desempeño de las microempresas en el Cercado de Lima
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