Poverty, inequality, and social policies in Peru : as poor as it gets

This paper analyzes trends in poverty, income inequality and social policies in Peru in the last twenty years. Our objective is to explain what lies behind the generalized perception and complain by Peruvians that welfare and living standards have not got any better in at least two generations. We f...

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Autores principales: Yamada Fukusaki, Gustavo, Castro, Juan Francisco
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Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Universidad del Pacífico. Centro de Investigación 2012
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Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11354/316
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description This paper analyzes trends in poverty, income inequality and social policies in Peru in the last twenty years. Our objective is to explain what lies behind the generalized perception and complain by Peruvians that welfare and living standards have not got any better in at least two generations. We find problems in several fronts: lower expenditure than the average in the region, which could explain restrictions in coverage and quality of services, but also problems related to targeting, delivery of services, and overlapping, and deficient design and choice of effective programs. We also discuss why is that social policies have failed to deliver crucial assets for short, and specially, long term poverty and inequality alleviation in Peru, and present some guidelines to improve social policy design and implementation in Peru given past lessons, with special emphasis on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) framework as a tool for policy planning, design, and costing.
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spelling clacso-CLACSO519802022-03-17T18:39:49Z Poverty, inequality, and social policies in Peru : as poor as it gets Yamada Fukusaki, Gustavo Castro, Juan Francisco Pobreza Políticas sociales Desarrollo social--Perú This paper analyzes trends in poverty, income inequality and social policies in Peru in the last twenty years. Our objective is to explain what lies behind the generalized perception and complain by Peruvians that welfare and living standards have not got any better in at least two generations. We find problems in several fronts: lower expenditure than the average in the region, which could explain restrictions in coverage and quality of services, but also problems related to targeting, delivery of services, and overlapping, and deficient design and choice of effective programs. We also discuss why is that social policies have failed to deliver crucial assets for short, and specially, long term poverty and inequality alleviation in Peru, and present some guidelines to improve social policy design and implementation in Peru given past lessons, with special emphasis on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) framework as a tool for policy planning, design, and costing. 2012-08 2022-03-17T18:39:49Z 2022-03-17T18:39:49Z info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper http://hdl.handle.net/11354/316 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/51980 spa info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 4.0 Internacional application/pdf application/pdf Universidad del Pacífico. Centro de Investigación Repositorio de la Universidad del Pacífico - UP Universidad del Pacífico
spellingShingle Pobreza
Políticas sociales
Desarrollo social--Perú
Yamada Fukusaki, Gustavo
Castro, Juan Francisco
Poverty, inequality, and social policies in Peru : as poor as it gets
title Poverty, inequality, and social policies in Peru : as poor as it gets
title_full Poverty, inequality, and social policies in Peru : as poor as it gets
title_fullStr Poverty, inequality, and social policies in Peru : as poor as it gets
title_full_unstemmed Poverty, inequality, and social policies in Peru : as poor as it gets
title_short Poverty, inequality, and social policies in Peru : as poor as it gets
title_sort poverty, inequality, and social policies in peru : as poor as it gets
topic Pobreza
Políticas sociales
Desarrollo social--Perú
url http://hdl.handle.net/11354/316
http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/51980