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    On the Way to Transformation

    Reports & Research
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    October, 2015
    Peru

    The implementation of metro line 2, now under way, will provide a modern, 35 kilometer mass transit axis linking major population and job centers in Lima, the capital of Peru, with Callao to the west, the country’s chief seaport and international airport. Integrated with the Lima-Callao region’s existing public transport network, line 2 will create a major corridor that will improve the accessibility of jobs, services, and markets for 2.3 million people and provide a backbone for more efficient urban development.

  2. Library Resource
    Securing Forest Tenure Rights for Rural Development: Lessons from Six Countries in Latin America cover image
    Journal Articles & Books
    March, 2017
    Latin America and the Caribbean, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Argentina, Colombia, Peru

    Secure land tenure in rural landscapes is widely recognized as an essential foundation for achieving a range of economic development goals. However, forest areas in low and middle-income countries face particular challenges in strengthening the security of land and resource tenure. Forest peoples are often among the poorest and most politically marginalized communities in their national contexts, and their tenure systems are often based on customary, collective rights that have insufficient formal legal protection.

  3. Library Resource
    August, 2014
    Peru

    Geographic targeting is perhaps the most
    popular mechanism used to direct social programs to the poor
    in Latin America. The author empirically compares geographic
    targeting indicators available in Peru. He combines
    household-level information from the 1994 and 1997 Peru
    Living Standards Measurement Surveys and district-level
    information from the 1993 Peru Population and Housing
    Census. He then conducts a series of simulations that

  4. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    Peru

    Poverty and economic stagnation
    characterize most rural areas in Peru. National growth has
    been slow and uneven since the mid-1970s, benefiting urban
    areas rather than rural ones. Between 1985 and 2000, the
    number of poor people increased by 71 percent. The incidence
    of poverty (67 percent) and extreme poverty (40 percent) is
    highest in rural areas, reaching 73 percent (poverty) and 41
    percent (extreme poverty) in the sierra. This means that 4.2

  5. Library Resource
    August, 2012
    Peru

    The Andean region of Puno, known as the
    altiplano, is located at 3,830 meters above sea level. The
    terrain is prone to flooding, and thus difficult to
    cultivate. In order to deal with this situation, Andean
    indigenous populations displaced huge amounts of soil in
    order to create raised fields that were better adapted to
    agricultural use. Raised fields resolved many of the
    problems that affect agriculture at high altitude. The

  6. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Peru

    This report on a key to poverty
    reduction in Peru identifies a number of cost-effective
    policy interventions that could be adopted in the short and
    medium term to support sustainable development goals as the
    Government of Peru attempts to combat the problems of
    inadequate water supply, sanitation and hygiene; urban air
    pollution; natural disasters; lead exposure; indoor air
    pollution; land degradation; deforestation; and inadequate

  7. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Peru

    This paper analyses the effect of a set of irrigation rehabilitation projects conducted over the last 10 years in Peru. The projects were conducted without the aim or the tools for a full-fledged impact evaluation. Nevertheless, this paper attempts an evaluation through the use of alternative data sources such as household surveys and geographic information, a strategy of identification of beneficiaries and control households based on spatial proximity to the projects' sites, and an econometric approach consisting of a double-differencing technique.

  8. Library Resource
    May, 2012
    Peru

    This book argues that Peru faces an
    unprecedented opportunity to become the next success story
    in Latin America. In the coming five years, policy making
    could put the country on a development path similar to the
    one that, say, Chile, Costa Rica, or Spain have followed
    over the last two decades. This book includes 32
    sector-specific chapters and 2 historical perspectives that
    precede them. The beginning chapter, a synthesis, builds a

  9. Library Resource
    June, 2012
    Peru

    The rural roads program, overseen by
    Provias Descentralizado (subdivision of Peru's Ministry
    of Transportation and Communications), began in 1995, and
    has received funds from the Peruvian Government, the World
    Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. It is a
    national program for the rehabilitation and maintenance of
    roads that link rural communities and villages with
    secondary and principal roads, and through these, with towns

  10. Library Resource
    March, 2012
    Peru

    This paper uses district level data to
    estimate the general relationship between climate, income
    and life expectancy in Peru. The analysis finds that both
    incomes and life expectancy show hump-shaped relationships,
    with optimal average annual temperatures around 18-20ºC.
    These estimated relationships were used to simulate the
    likely effects of both past (1958-2008) and future
    (2008-2058) climate change. At the aggregate level, future

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