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Climate change, agriculture, and adaptation options for Peru

While agriculture represents only 7 percent of total GDP (World Bank 2014) for Peru, it is not an insignificant economic sector.

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Agriculture, incomes, and gender in Latin America by 2050: An assessment of climate change impacts and household resilience for Brazil, Mexico, and Peru

This report has been prepared in response to growing concerns about the impacts of climate change on Latin American economies, agriculture, and people.
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How do programs work to improve child nutrition?

This paper examines the program logic of three nongovernmental, community-based programs with different intervention models to reduce childhood stunting.

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The economics of desertification, land degradation, and drought

Attention to land degradation and environmental pollution has increased significantly in the past 25 years, largely due to greater levels of international cooperation and recognition that local changes in land resources have global impacts.

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The impact of land titling on labor allocation

This paper analyzes the relationship between land property rights and household labor allocation. It posits that land titling has two opposite effects on labor decisions.

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Breaking the norm

We present results from an artefactual field experiment conducted in rural Peru that considers how observing nonreciprocal behavior influences an individual's decision to reciprocate.
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Lagging regions and development strategies

Despite the economic transformation of Peru’s coastal economy, the country’s inland region remains poor and underdeveloped.

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The effects of alternative free trade agreements on Peru

"By using a global computable general equilibrium model, this report analyzes the impact of various pending free trade agreements for Peru. In December 2007, a Peru–United States free trade agreement (FTA) was finally ratified by the U.S.