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    Rebuilding the state in areas affected by political violence: the case of rural communities in Ayacucho, Peru

    Global Development Network, 2004
    Two significant events in the 1980s deeply impacted Peruvian society: an economic crisis that resulted in recession and hyperinflation, and the spread of political violence in Ayacucho.
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    WHO global study on domestic violence against women

    World Health Organization, 2005
    This report by the World Health Organization presents a global perspective on domestic violence against women. Covering ten countries including Bangladesh, Peru and Tanzania, the document finds that violence against women is still widespread with far reaching health consequences.The report covers violence against women in both partner and non-partner experiences.
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    Beyond being ‘open for business’: monitoring the impact of telecentres

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    Telecentres can provide computer services and connect people on low incomes who could never afford a private connection. Some 10,000 telecentres were planned for Latin America and the Caribbean for 2003-04, to supplement the existing 5,000. But how many are still working? And what has been their impact on the communities they serve?
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    Enhancing income opportunities for the rural poor: the benefits of rural roads

    Global Development Network, 2004
    Key rural infrastructure investments can have a long lasting impact on the poor if they are able to open and sustain new market opportunities. Most studies have measured the benefits of rehabilitated rural roads by focusing on reductions in monetary or time costs needed to access product and factor markets or key public social services.
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    Multidimensional poverty in a risky environment: Peru, 1998-2002

    Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada / Institute of Applied Economic Research, Brazil, 2005
    Understanding of human deprivation must not be confined to consumption shortfalls which represent only one of the multiple faces of poverty. Disease, illiteracy, malnutrition, and also sense of insecurity and defenselessness are other form of deprivation. This paper explores the multidimensional reality of poverty.
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    Labor market transitions in Peru

    Développement, Institutions & Analyses de Long terme, 2003
    Traditional labor market analysis based solely on the net unemployment rate fails to explain the apparent paradox between a relatively moderate unemployment rate in Peru (around 10%, with a weak sensibility to wide macroeconomic fluctuations), and the fact that unemployment is one of the major issues in Peru.
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    Consumption growth and spatial poverty traps: an analysis of the effects of social services and community infrastructures on living standards in rural Peru

    Développement, Institutions & Analyses de Long terme, 2002
    This paper tests the effect of local geographic endowment of capital on household growth in living standards in rural Peru, using a four years unbalanced panel data set. Its theoretical model of household consumption growth allows for the effect of community variables to modify the returns to augmented capital in the household production function.
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    Meeting of minds: youth sexual health programme leaders tackle stigma and discrimination

    id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2005
    An international knowledge synthesis meeting under the UK Department for International Development's Safe Passages to Adulthood Programme brought together programme leaders and researchers from 11 resource-poor countries to discuss stigma, discrimination and human rights in relation to young people’s sexual and reproductive health (SRH).
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    The cost of resolving small-business conflicts: the case of Peru

    2004
    In spite of the recognized importance of having an efficient, predictable and accessible judicial system in promoting growth and investment, scarce attention has been paid to the legal problems of small businesses and their legal needs. This study analyzes the overall interaction between the judicial system and small businesses in Peru.
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    In focus: children and poverty

    United Nations Development Programme, 2004
    This issue of In Focus, the regular publication of the International Poverty Centre of UNDP, is devoted to the topic of childhood poverty, which is central to achieving progress on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and plays an important role in the transmission of disadvantage from one generation to another.Caroline Harper from the University of Manchester discusses why it is essential t

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