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Tuesday, 3 de March de 2026First priority: building a competent state, by Miguel Jaramillo
“On the one hand, we do not have political parties, but rather groups with purely electoral purposes […] On the other hand, we have a state with very limited capacity to design and implement policies.” Ahead of the 2026 elections, Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, writes about the importance of the state’s institutional capacity […]
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Wednesday, 10 de December de 2025
¿Qué hemos aprendido del estudio longitudinal Niños del Milenio en el Perú? Nuevos hallazgos y desafíos pendientes (2018-2025)
Niños del Milenio, conocido internacionalmente como Young Lives, es una investigación de largo plazo que estudia cómo cambian la pobreza y las oportunidades de niñas, niños y jóvenes en países de ingresos bajos y medios. Durante más de dos décadas, el estudio ha seguido de cerca a dos grupos en el Perú: quienes tenían alrededor […]
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Tuesday, 2 de December de 2025
Young people seek politicians, by Miguel Jaramillo
“Clearly, young people face the worst situation in the labor market.” Our Senior Researcher Miguel Jaramillo writes in El Comercio about the employment problems that particularly affect young people.
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Thursday, 6 de November de 2025
Rising youth unemployment: What are the risks?
“Although positive employment growth rates have been seen in the last year in particular, this recovery is not improving the situation for young people, who have suffered the most from labor market problems.” At the 2025 Annual Conference of Executives (CADE Ejecutivos), Miguel Jaramillo, senior researcher at GRADE, spoke with Radio Programas del Perú about […]
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Thursday, 6 de November de 2025
Training Entrepreneurs
Aid agencies and governments spend more than a billion US$ on entrepreneurship training annually. What have we learned about the effectiveness of training? We review research on entrepreneurship training. Classroom-based training remains the most popular method of training owners and managers of small firms. A meta-analysis shows that the standard training model has modestly positive […]
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Wednesday, 5 de November de 2025
Miguel Jaramillo is a session moderator at the Annual Conference of Executives CADE 2025
Our Senior Researcher Miguel Jaramillo will moderate today’s panel discussion on “How do we generate quality employment?” as part of the 2025 edition of the Annual Congress of Executives of Peru (CADE), an initiative of IPAE Acción Empresarial. This session will discuss actions to promote formal and sustainable employment, with private investment, macroeconomic stability, and […]
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Thursday, 18 de September de 2025
Running Ahead or Moving Together? Individual and Group Consulting for Female Entrepreneurship
This study evaluates cost-effective strategies for transferring management skills to female entrepreneurs in urban Peru, particularly established SME owners and managers. Through a randomized experiment, researchers compare the impact of individual and group-based consulting on these groups. Both consulting formats led to better business practices and to sizable increases in sales (32%) and profits (24%), […]
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Friday, 4 de July de 2025
Human Capital Development New Evidence on the Production of Socio-Emotional Skills
We estimate a dynamic model of socio-emotional skill development between ages eight and 22 for a Peruvian cohort born in 1994. At age eight there is no wealth gradient, in contrast to cognitive skills. However, by age 12, inequalities emerge and widen through age 19, driven by differential household investments, and cross-productivity with cognitive skills. […]
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Monday, 2 de June de 2025
Eduardo Zegarra’s project is selected in PROCIENCIA’s 2025-04 Social Science Research Contest
We congratulate our Senior Researcher Eduardo Zegarra, whose research project “Agro-export boom and labor conditions of agricultural workers: evaluating the impacts of changing from Law 27360 to Law 31110” was selected in the Economic Policy area of the Social Science Research Projects 2025-04 contest, promoted by the National Council for Science, Technology and Technological Innovation […]
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Wednesday, 14 de May de 2025
Unpacking the COVID-19 gender employment gap among young people in the global south
We provide new evidence on the employment gap between young men and women in three low- and middle-income countries during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. We estimate a year-end increase of 17–18 percentage points in Peru and India (Andhra Pradesh and Telangana), and 9.5 percentage points in Vietnam. A mediation approach is used […]
