This paper empirically investigates the impacts of Peru's Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme JUNTOS upon educational outcomes of beneficiary children. The findings associate Juntos participation with higher overall enrolment rates and grades of schooling for children aged 12 to 18 years....

Peru has made great progress in reducing poverty and inequality in the past decade alongside high economic growth. Albeit this progress, the incidence of poverty and inequality remain high. This paper examines the distributional and poverty impact of the public tax and transfer system in Peru....

Carbon taxes could be key policies to achieve ambitious climate goals. Yet their distributional and poverty impacts need to be addressed. This can be achieved by redistributing tax revenues to households though cash transfers. Nevertheless, the right design of a cash transfer scheme depends on...