ELLA
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Spotlight on organisations: labour market policies in Latin America
This spotlight highlights some of the key organisations working on labour market issues in Latin America, including labour policy in general, social protection, employment, youth employment, labour training, labour migration, and labour intermediation. The Spotlight has been divided between international organisations that address labour markets and other issues, and those organisations focusing solely on labour […]
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Spotlight on publications: labour market policies in Latin America
The publications presented in this Spotlight represent some of the key resources dealing with issues related to labour market policies in Latin America. The selected publications focus on the following topics: Gender and Labour; Impact Evaluations; Labour Intermediation Services; Active and Passive Labour Market Policies and Programmes; and Labour Market Regulations and Development.
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Labour market information programmes
Within the liberal economic model that spread across Latin America during the 1990s, free and open markets were considered the main mechanism for resource allocation. In this context, Latin American governments focused not on providing employment opportunities, but on supporting the workings of the labour market. One area where labour market failure had been identified […]
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Peru’s ProJoven Training Programme
ProJoven (Programa Nacional de Empleo Juvenil) is an archetypal demand-driven, private sector-engaged training programme of the 1990s that succeeded in reaching its target beneficiaries. Conceived as a social programme of the Ministry of Labour, ProJoven trained, in the short term, young people from households below the poverty line. Empirical evidence shows that the programme had […]
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Improving Environmental Management of Extractives through Environmental Impact Assessments
The Brief focuses on three particularly noteworthy innovations implemented in Peru: mine closure plans; regulation and approval mechanisms; and citizen participation.
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From supply- to demand-led: labour training in Latin America
Over the past two decades, most Latin American countries began to see the need to reform their labour training systems. Up until this time, traditional training in Latin America had been supply-driven, with large-sized public sector institutions providing training based on what they perceived was needed within a state-led industrial development framework. Graduates of these […]
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Peruvian Microfinance’s Caja Municipal Model
This Brief tells the story of the Caja Municipales system, focusing on the Caja Trujillo example to offer lessons learned for other regions.
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Guide to microfinance in Latin America
The Guide concludes with lessons that may be relevant for other contexts, as well as highlighting key publications and organisations related to microfinance in the region.
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Latin America’s Institutional and Regulatory Innovations for Microfinance Growth
This Brief provides an overview to the Latin American experience in regulating MFIs, covering the history of microfinance regulation in the region and the positive effects it has had on the sector’s current performance.
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Profit-based versus Production-based Tax Regimes: Latin America’s Experience
This Brief uses the examples of Peru and Chile to highlight Latin American experiences when migrating from production-based to profit-based tax regimes, in particular arguing that profit-based regimes seem to be the best choice in the current Latin American context of a mining boom.
