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Rural Poverty in Peru: Stylized Facts and Analytics for Policy

In: Rural Poverty in Latin America

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  • Ramón López
  • Carla Maggiora

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The objective of this chapter is to provide a systematic assessment of rural poverty in Peru and to study the most important factors that determine per capita income and expenditures of rural households. This chapter consists of three parts. The first part is devoted to a descriptive analysis of the evidence for rural Peru based on the Living Standard Measurement Survey (LSMS) of 1994. The emphasis here is in characterizing the main groups in the rural sector of Peru: farmers, agricultural workers and non-agricultural workers. It is shown that these three groups are quite different from each other in terms of their levels of poverty, asset endowments, demographic characteristics and sources of income. The main implication of this is that an effective rural poverty alleviation strategy needs to explicitly consider the idiosyncrasies of each group in targeting and designing policy instruments.

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  • Ramón López & Carla Maggiora, 2000. "Rural Poverty in Peru: Stylized Facts and Analytics for Policy," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Ramón López & Alberto Valdés (ed.), Rural Poverty in Latin America, chapter 14, pages 281-305, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-333-97779-8_14
    DOI: 10.1057/9780333977798_14
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    1. Catalina Estrada‐Mejia & Ellen Peters & Nathan F. Dieckmann & Marcel Zeelenberg & Marieke De Vries & David P. Baker, 2020. "Schooling, numeracy, and wealth accumulation: A study involving an agrarian population," Journal of Consumer Affairs, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 54(2), pages 648-674, June.

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