shoe manufacture in Peru, which are served by the network of Technological Innovation Centers (CITEs), the most important … technology policy instrument available in Peru. These two chains, in low and medium-technology industries, are representative of … Peru's manufacturing sector. Of particular interest is the role of technical standards as a means of technological …

Applying the methodology developed in Ñopo (2004), this paper analyzes the evolution of the gender wage gap in Peru …

Peru has one of the highest informality rates in Latin America, with almost 60 percent of the urban labor force working … rates in the 1990s. First, Peru experienced a steady increase in employment allocation in traditionally “informal” sectors …

returns to education in Urban Peru. Exploiting a rich pair of data sets (ENNIV 1997 and 2000) that include questions on type …

This paper examines the link between financial deepening and formalization in Peru. Using data from the National … Household Survey, Bloomberg and the Central Bank of Peru Central Bank, the Catao, Pages, and Rosales (2009) model is implemented …

program, using data collected after 15 months of implementation in 319 primary schools in rural Peru. The results indicate …

for home use to children attending primary schools in Lima, Peru. The intervention increased access and use of home …

Using borrower-level data from FINCA, one of Peru's leading microfinance institutions (MFIs), this paper evaluates the …