Background Peru is an upper-middle-income country with wide social and regional
disparities. In recent years, sustained multisectoral antipoverty programmes involving …

Anaemia and stunting are prevalent nutritional problems among children of low‐income
countries that have profound effects on development, morbidity, and mortality. Many use a …

Background Stunting prevalence in children less than 5 years has remained stagnated in
Peru from 1992 to 2007, with a rapid reduction thereafter. We aimed to assess the role of …

El presente documento explora, mediante una revisión de los estudios sobre el tema,
algunas hipótesis que tratan de explicar las características comunes a los programas …

This paper assesses the cost-effectiveness of indicator-based targeting. Using household
survey data from Malawi, we examine whether an indicator-based system is more target and …

What accounts for the oft-noted'gap'between well-designed policies for women and their
inadequate implementation? Why do such policies often fail to benefit the poorest women …

The goal of this study was to measure food insecurity among families with children in a low-
income district of Lima, Peru and to identify the formal and informal food resources available …

Using the accountability framework developed by the World Development Report 2004:
Making Services Work for Poor People, this book analyzes the low-level equilibrium and the …

Social assistance has attracted renewed interest in countries where economic growth is
doing too little on its own to address high levels of income inequality and poverty. Research …

BACKGROUND Since the 1980s, most developing countries have adopted a policy of user
fees for health care services. Such policies, however, reduce access to services for those …