Publicaciones de Pobreza y equidad
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Spotlight on organisations: smallholder farmers and rural development
This document highlights some of the key organisations that focus on small-scale farming in the Latin American context. Together, these organisations cover a wide range of themes, including institutional rural development, land access and use, market access, value chains, food security, and smallholder market integration, and a variety of issues related to rural life, such […]
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Spotlight on publications: smallholder farmers and rural development
The publications presented below represent some of the key resources dealing with a variety of issues related to rural development and small-scale farming in Latin America. The selected publications focus on: Market Access; Territorial Development; Rural Development; Agricultural Productivity; Reality of Smallholder Farmers; and Land Use and Rights. Case Studies addressing these themes in a […]
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Latin America’s rural family farmers: evolutions in access to markets and rural income structure
In order to understand Latin America’s current experience with small-holder farming, it is helpful to understand two key changes in the region’s rural areas that have been evolving mainly over the past two decades: farmers’ increased access to markets and diversification of their income sources. This Brief takes a closer look at these two key […]
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América Latina hacia la inclusión social. Avances, aprendizajes y desafíos
Los estudios que conforman este libro se inscribieron dentro de cuatro áreas temáticas que la Iniciativa Latinoamericana de Investigación para las Políticas Públicas (ILAIPP) decidió promover, por estar vinculados en niveles y proporciones diferentes a la inclusión social como la cuestión principal a discutir. Estas áreas temáticas estaban referidas a las experiencias exitosas (o buenas […]
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Broken Gears: The Value Added of Higher Education on Teachers’ Academic Achievement
A growing literature establishes that good teachers are essential for high quality educational systems. However, little is known about teachers’ skills formation during their college years. In this paper we use a novel panel data set combining two standardized tests for Colombian students: one that is taken at the end of senior year in high […]
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Educational opportunities and learning outcomes of children in Peru: a longitudinal model
This collection brings together the latest evidence from Young Lives, a unique international study that focuses on children and poverty – particularly how poverty affects their development and their lives as children, and how children and their families respond to poverty. It shows how the persistence of inequality amid general economic growth is leaving some […]
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¿La cuna marca las oportunidades y el rendimiento educativo? Una mirada al caso peruano
Este documento pretende ser un aporte para el diseño de políticas para reducir la inequidad del sistema educativo peruano a través del análisis de la asociación entre el nivel socioeconómico (NSE) de los estudiantes, oportunidades de aprendizaje (ODA) y rendimiento educativo
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Inclusión social: diálogos entre la investigación y las políticas públicas
Esta publicación recoge el espíritu del seminario internacional «Cambios Institucionales para un Estado más Inclusivo» (julio de 2012), y apunta a lo más relevante y valioso de cada exposición, intervención y comentario.
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The incidence of social spending and taxes in Peru
Para estimar los efectos de la política fiscal sobre la pobreza y la desigualdad en Perú se utiliza un análisis estándar de incidencia de impuestos y prestaciones. Los resultados sugieren que el grado de reducción de la desigualdad y la pobreza inducido por la política fiscal peruana es pequeño. Este resultado se asocia a un […]
