Policy brief
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Demanda social por programas de atención y educación de la primera infancia (AEPI) en el Perú
Providing relevant information for planning the scaling up of AEPI programme services through the perceptions and opinions of key stakeholders in two regions of the country.
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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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Impacto de la licencia municipal en el desempeño de las microempresas en el Cercado de Lima
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Peruvian Microfinance’s Caja Municipal Model
This Brief tells the story of the Caja Municipales system, focusing on the Caja Trujillo example to offer lessons learned for other regions.
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Guide to microfinance in Latin America
The Guide concludes with lessons that may be relevant for other contexts, as well as highlighting key publications and organisations related to microfinance in the region.
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Latin America’s Institutional and Regulatory Innovations for Microfinance Growth
This Brief provides an overview to the Latin American experience in regulating MFIs, covering the history of microfinance regulation in the region and the positive effects it has had on the sector’s current performance.
