Peru
Millones de personas en todo el mundo no pueden abrir una cuenta bancaria, conseguir crédito, votar, ser titulares de bienes o heredarlos, obtener un empleo o un pasaporte, acceder a la atención sanitaria, o incluso acudir a la escuela. ¿El motivo? Carecer de certificado de nacimiento. Hasta hace bien poco en Perú, miles de niñas y niños nacidos de...
This paper investigates the actions of the Los-Angeles based company, Occidental petroleum (Oxy) which have led to contamination in the Peruvian Amazon. It particularly focuses on the human rights and environmental abuses that have resulted from Oxy’s behaviour.
The authors argue that over the course of 30 years in Achuar territory, Oxy engaged in destructive practices,...
There are various mechanisms which can be used to protect Traditional Knowledge (TK). This report provides a comparative analysis of a number of case studies of existing databases and registers of TK and attempts to draw some conclusions and recommendations regarding their strengths and limitations for securing protection of TK.
The first section of the report discusses a number of...
This paper looks at Payments for Environmental Services (PES) as an equitable approach for reducing poverty and conserving nature. It presents a number of case studies including Guatemala, Peru and the Philippines, whilst also discussing the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) approach to equitable PES.
The authors argue that the concept of PES has received substantial interest in...
Over the past decade, a multinational group of investigators has been working in concert to observe, understand and develop adaptations to climate change and its impacts on species, habitats and people in the uppermost reaches of the biosphere at high alpine field sites along the central Andes of Peru, Bolivia and Argentina.
Markets play a basic role in economic welfare. In rich countries life would be unimaginable without access to a wide array of reasonably well functioning markets, from food to credit and insurance. It is almost never the case that a rich-country household has to produce something in order to consume it, or that its members cannot sell their labour for a salary or wage. Credit markets function...
Child labour is widespread in developing countries, but its causes are debatable. Poverty is considered the primary reason, but many theoretical and empirical analyses show that other factors, such as lack of access to credit, poor school quality and labour market opportunities play equal or even greater roles in the decision to have children work.
This study surveys the existing...
Between August and October 2004, a study of household poverty dynamics was undertaken in forty rural communities in two regions of the Andean highlands of Peru to ascertain how different households have fared over time. This study took the same community-based ‘Stages-of-Progress’ approach designed for studying poverty dynamics and the role of livestock as did several similar...
All poverty reduction is local. This is easy to forget given how discussion and debate on the subject is dominated by bilateral aid agencies, development banks, national governments and international NGOs. But regardless of higher level commitments and decisions, what actually happens on the ground in particular localities is what makes the difference. Many barriers to poverty reduction are...
Con el fin de evaluar las dinámicas de la pobreza de los hogares y el papel de la ganadería en 40 comunidades y más de 3,800 hogares representativos de dos regiones de alturas diferentes del Perú (Puno y Cajamarca), se usó una metodología cualitativa-cuantitativa de análisis de la pobreza comunitaria conocida como el enfoque de progreso “...
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