Despite improvements in enrolment rates in recent decades, the Peruvian school system still has serious shortcomings. A high drop-out rate in secondary school stems from the fact that the system does not provide adequate support for students who fall behind, cannot afford to go to school, or...

This paper quantifies the contributions of different factors to poverty reduction observed in Bangladesh, Peru and Thailand over the last decade. In contrast to methods that focus on aggregate summary statistics, the method adopted here generates entire counterfactual distributions to account...

Este trabajo aplica al caso peruano el marco conceptual de igualdad de oportunidades y otros indicadores para medir de manera directa cómo se distribuyen las oportunidades de acceso a bienes y servicios clave entre los niños. El objetivo subyacente de la investigación es poner en el debate...

La salud del niño, en particular su estado nutricional de largo plazo, está estrechamente relacionado con las características de las familias, las comunidades y los niños, incluida la educación de la madre y el acceso a los servicios públicos. Ahora bien, el acceso a los servicios...

The article reviews trends in global poverty and inequality in the recent decades. It provides evidence that global poverty, especially extreme poverty, reduced significantly, however income disparities between global citizens of the world remained unchanged. The article also discusses policy...

Improvement in labor market conditions has been the main explanation behind many of the poverty success stories observed in the last decade—that is the primary conclusion of an analysis of changes in poverty by income source. Changes in labor earnings were the largest contributor to poverty...

Demographics, labor income, public transfers, or remittances: Which factor contributes the most to observed reductions in poverty? Using counterfactual simulations, this paper accounts for the contribution labor income has made to the observed changes in poverty over the past decade for a set of...