This book identifies the achievements and challenges of social policy in Peru. Its objective is to provide the new presidential administration of Peru with a diagnostic of the main problems that need to be overcome to improve education, health care, and anti-poverty programs, and with...

This note describes the experience of RECURSO - the Spanish acronym for Accountability for Social Reform (REndicion de CUentas para la Reforma SOcial), a successful effort to create the missing link: high expectations. The RECURSO program provided the impetus for the establishment of...

This paper evaluates the impact of a student loan program on time-to-degree for undergraduate students at a large university in Peru. The loans have been provided to low-income students who display satisfactory academic performance. The decision whether to apply for a loan depends on each...

In this paper we estimate total factor productivity (TFP) growth for the Peruvian economy using the primal and dual methods for the period 2003-2012. According to the primal method, a procedure that uses the Solow residual as an indicator of productivity, TFP grew at an average annual rate of...

Se utiliza la Encuesta Nacional de Niveles de Vida (ENNIV) de varios años para medir la magnitud y complejidad del trabajo infantil a escala nacional.

Durante los primeros meses del año 2001, la Unidad de Estadística Educativa del Ministerio de Educación del Perú se abocó a la producción de una serie de documentos sobre el estado de la educación peruana. Dicha tarea, favorecida por la creciente disponibilidad de información, tomó...