Research Progress Paper
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Promoviendo el empleo y la empleabilidad durante el COVID-19: evaluación de cuatro experiencias en América Latina
The COVID-19 pandemic and the measures to control it had a strong impact on the Latin American labor market. As a result of this crisis, the region experienced a rapid decline in its employed population and a significant rise in unemployment, which hit women and youth the hardest. In this context, Latin American countries implemented […]
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Estrategias comunitarias contra el hambre durante la pandemia: experiencias y propuestas desde los casos de Perú, Uruguay y Chile
The objective of this paper is to analyze the resurgence of community initiatives in response to hunger during the pandemic in the Latin American region. It looks in particular at how they are emerging or growing, what their needs are and what role governments have played in response to them, focusing on the cases of […]
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Resiliencia en tiempos de pandemia: el caso de las ollas comunes en Lima, Perú
The coronavirus pandemic has not only been a health emergency, but has also generated an economic, social and food crisis. In this context, cooking pots (OC) have played a central role in the subsistence of the most vulnerable population in the cities, and in some way have replaced social food programs. The first part of […]
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Entendiendo la paradoja de la maternidad adolescente en Lima Metropolitana: Un análisis de los efectos de vecindario en el 2013
During the last 35 years, teenage childbearing rate in Metropolitan Lima has not decreased, despite the fact that the capital city has greater access to public services and better economic opportunities than other regions of Peru. In this paper, this apparent paradox is analyzed based on an exploratory analysis of neighborhood effects for 2013. Specifically, through […]
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El agua, un anhelo permanente. La minería y sus efectos territoriales sobre el agua en la comunidad afrodescendiente de Patilla, La Guajira, Colombia
In this work, the author analyzes the different transformations that have occurred in Patilla’s relationship with water, from the arrival of mining and the subsequent resettlement process, in 2012. To this end, she analyzes how water It has been linked to the construction and configuration of the territory, both in Origin and in resettlement. In […]
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Medición de la prevalencia de la violencia física y psicológica hacia niñas, niños y adolescentes, y sus factores asociados en el Perú. Evidencia de Niños del Milenio
The prevalence of violence —in particular against children and adolescents— is one of the great pending challenges in Peru. This paper uses data from the Young Lives longitudinal study with two objectives: first, to document the prevalence of experiences of physical and psychological violence suffered by children and adolescents; and second, to analyze the life cycle factors […]
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La importancia de las prácticas preprofesionales en la transición al empleo. Un estudio en las ciudades capitales del Perú
Professional unemployment and underemployment are problems that affect thousands of Peruvians. Their incidence is generally attributed to a mismatch between labor demand and supply. University education does not guarantee a job appropriate to the academic level obtained. Pre-professional internships are a low-cost, high-impact intervention to attack this problem. Far from being a government intervention, many […]
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Using a co-occurrence index to capture crop tolerance to climate variability: a case study of Peruvian farmers
Peruvian small farmers in the Andes mountain region have historically faced wide climate variability (from year to year and within the crop growing season). Traditional knowledge and practices, including crop portfolio diversification and selection of tolerant crops, aim at safeguarding food security even in “bad” years when climate- or market-related risks materialize. In spite of this […]
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Revisiting the determinants of non-farm income in the Peruvian Andes in a context of intraseasonal climate variability and spatially widespread family networks
Non-farm income sources are increasingly important in the developing world, representing up to 50 percent of average rural household income. Although there is a vast literature on the determinants of rural households’ strategies for income diversification, two factors associated with long-term transformations and common to many developing countries, have not yet been integrated into the […]
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Ser joven en el Perú: educación y trabajo
Despite the sustained growth experienced by Peru during the last decade, there are still development indicators that require significant improvements. Among the most urgent, those of the labor market. Where about 80% of the household income is generated, 7 in 10 Peruvians work in informal jobs without any social protection. This situation is even more […]
