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  Learning more about microfinance beneficiaries in Peru

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  More attention has been paid to the finances of microfinance institutions than their social performance. Microfinance institutions report that some clients – such as poor women with young children – drop out of schemes and find it hard to repay loans. In Peru new forms of assessment are helping microfinance managers to better understand their clients.
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  The determinants of subjective poverty: a comparative analysis in Madagascar and Peru

  Développement, Institutions & Analyses de Long terme, 2006

  The multidimensionality of poverty has slowly become widely acknowledged. A number of studies show a weak relationship between the monetary approach to poverty and household's subjective perception of wellbeing. Studies in the developing world show that well-being is not only based on monetary income or consumption, but also on other factors such as employment and health.
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  Partnerships will improve girls’ education

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  The Millennium Development Goal to achieve gender equality in education can only be met by concerted action. Stronger partnerships are needed to increase opportunities for the millions of girls and women excluded from education, but what kind?
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  WHO Multi-country Study on Women's Health and Domestic Violence Against Women

  World Health Organization, 2005

  Violence against women by their male partners is common, wide-spread and far-reaching in its impact. For too long hidden behind closed doors and not mentioned in public discussions, such violence can no longer be denied as part of everyday life for millions of women.
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  Barter markets: sustaining people and nature in Peru

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  The Peruvian Government’s attempts to bring Andean farmers into the global economy have been disastrous. Free market, neo-liberal policies and modern farming technology not only expose farmers to financial risk but also lead to ecological degradation. In response, Andean farmers have taken up the ancient practice of bartering food products.
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  Climate change and the forest sector: possible national and subnational legislation

  Forestry Department, FAO, 2004

  Climate change presents the world with a daunting problem. Responding to this problem will require pioneering efforts in science, politics, pollution control, forest land management and law.
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  Social capital and education outcomes in urban and rural Peru

  Young Lives, 2005

  This paper explores whether social capital is associated with educational progress and achievement in urban and rural Peru.Whilst enrolment in primary schools in Peru is very high, more than half of primary school children are one or more grades below the norm for their age, Peruvian school children also score well below the norms expected for their age, and their scores are below the average l
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  Getting real about inequality: evidence from Brazil, Colombia, Mexico and Peru

  Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2006

  Differences in spending patterns across households, together with differences in the evolution of prices across goods, imply that different households face different inflation rates.
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  Revitalising indigenous languages

  id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2006

  Over the past 30 years there has been a blossoming of education approaches for and by indigenous peoples. Where there are bilingual and intercultural or multicultural programmes for indigenous peoples, as in Guatemala, Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru, indigenous students have achieved higher performance and attendance rates.
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  Work and masculinity among Peruvian urban men

  United Nations [UN] Division for the Advancement of Women, 2003

  This paper highlights the strong association between masculinity and work in urban Peru. For young Peruvian men, work is a source of personal independence and social recognition, and is seen as key to becoming a man. For adult men, work is associated with being able to support a family, and is a way of accumulating respectability and reinforcing manhood.

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