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    Free Trade with USA – makes Peruvian rural households and children vulnerable

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
    The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Peru and USA officially went into effect on February 1, 2009. It brings trade concessions in return for reducing tariffs to allow US exports into Peru’s domestic market. This may stimulate economic growth in Peru in the long term. But the short term impacts could make rural households more vulnerable and in turn affect children.
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    When training is insufficient: reflections on capacity development in health promotion in Peru

    Health Promotion International, 2006
    This article, from Health Promotion International, discusses key lessons learned from project designed and implemented by the CHANGE Project to contribute to capacity development in health promotion in Peru between 2002 and 2005.
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    The FTA between Peru and the USA: what about Andean peasants?

    Consorcio de Investigación Económica y Social / The Economic and Social Research Consortium, 2008
    The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Peru and the United States (US) is being promoted by the Peruvian government as a win-win situation for all. However, serious concerns about how it will impact peasants and small farmers in the Andean and the Amazonian regions of Peru need to be voiced. This opinion paper examines briefly who these poor peasants are.
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    The return of the left and the future of reform in Latin America

    Center for International Private Enterprise, 2008
    Experts say that there has been very strong macroeconomic growth in Latin America in the past few years, despite poor results from initial efforts to implement reforms in the region in the 1990s.
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    Reaching the MDGs: an international perspective

    Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2008
    The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) reached their half-way mark in 2007 amidst both disappointment and hope: although progress on the goals had been limited, particularly in the world’s poorer countries, there was still sufficient time left to accelerate the process provided that prevailing political, institutional and economic constraints were overcome.
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    Strategies for aspiring biomedical researchers in resource-limited environments

    Public Library of Science Medicine, 2008
    This article, published in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, looks at how biomedical researchers from developing countries can conduct research in resource poor settings.
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    Press freedom and economic development in Latin America

    Centro para la Apertura y el Desarollo de América Latina / Centre for the Opening and Development of Latin America, 2008
    This report seeks to disentangle and analyse the relationship between indicators of press freedom, economic liberty and economic development in Latin America. It considers press freedom and economic development in a historical perspective, and also analyses recent rankings of press and economic freedoms.
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    Why education does not necessarily promote equality

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
    In Peru, as elsewhere in Latin America, dramatic expansion of access to education has failed to reduce persistent inequality. Latin America remains the most unequal region in the world. Models used by conventional economists predict that education should have an equalising effect. Do they underestimate the role of ethnicity in education-income relations?
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    Educational attainment, growth and poverty reduction within the MDG framework: simulations and costing for the Peruvian case

    Poverty and Economic Policy Network, 2008
    While the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) comprise of a wide-ranging set of sectors and indicators, progress assessment exercises tend to avoid looking at the interactions across the various sectors and indicators. For policymakers in poor countries intent on achieving all goals within the stipulated timeframe, though, a more coordinated perspective is necessary.
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    'You are not going to amuse yourself', barriers to achieving wellbeing through international migration: the case of Peruvian immigrants in London and Madrid

    International NGO Training and Research Centre, 2007
    International migration from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) to the EU is important but has received relatively little attention and needs to be better understood. This paper provides a wellbeing analysis of international migration by inductively analysing perceived obstacles or blocks to achieving wellbeing amongst a sample of 99 Peruvian migrants based in London and Madrid.

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