The aim of the document is to analyse the options of expansion that hat manufacture within peasant families of Bambamarca have. This is a part of one objective: the promotion of non-farming rural activities as a strategy to increase poor family’s income. A theoretical model, which allows...

Towards the end of the nineteen eighties, the migration of labour force became a massive social phenomenon in Peru. Apparently, the operating conditions of the urban labour market, specially the drops of income and the high level of unemployment, have been the cause of the growing exodus of...

The aim of this document is to discuss, on a microeconomic basis, the effect of food assistance in poor rural female headed households. According to the results of the 1994 Farming Census these homes are the twenty percent of the total. Since they are considered to be one the poorest sectors of...