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Labour day: Miguel Jaramillo shares his thoughts on the state of the labour market in Peru
“I would not say that the employment has improved, but it has worsened in relation to pre-pandemic. Underemployment grew by more than 50%, the participation of young people in the labour market has fallen sharply and incomes have barely been able to keep up with inflation, thanks to the formal sector”. Our Senior Researcher Miguel Jaramillo and other experts share […]
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Eduardo Zegarra: Urban-rural relations in Latin America
“For me, the most serious aspect of rural depression is that it expels young people and decapitalizes the rural producers’ sector and makes it unviable. While we can say that the urban-rural relationship has increased, the assymetries and disadvantages for rural dwellers have also increased”. Our senior researcher Eduardo Zegarra shares his thoughts on the evolution […]
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Earth Day: a selection of our recent free access publications
Promoting environmentally and socially sustainable management of natural resources is one of the greatest challenges facing the countries of the region and Peru in particular. On Earth Day, we share some of the published work of our researchers who have focused on analyzing, from territorial and interdisciplinary perspectives, the social, economic and political causes that […]
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Liliana Miranda shares her thoughts on the law for the return of non-evaluated teachers to the public teaching career
“It is incredible how a system with so many challenges, instead of strenghtening schools, what we are doing is going backwards”. Liliana Miranda, Adjunct Researcher at GRADE, shares her thoughts in El Comercio on the recent regulation that allows dismissed teachers to enter to the teaching career without being evaluated.
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Miguel Jaramillo discusses on the regulation that allows the entry of retired interim teachers into the teaching profession
For Miguel Jaramillo, the regulation that allows the entry of interim teachers retired from the teaching service would be unconstitutional because it does not respect the concept of not submitting spending initiatives. The opinion of our senior researcher was reported by El Comercio.
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“Urban expansion should have been planned since the project began to be considered”. Alvaro Espinoza’s opinion on Chancay’s mega-port
“For them to start worrying about how the city is going to expand at this point is untimely. Urban expansion should have been planned since the project began to be considered”. Alvaro Espinoza, adjunct researcher at GRADE, writes in El Comercio about the housing demands due to the construction of the Chancay mega-port.
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Foundational cognitive skills: publications from the new episode of GRADE Conversa
Cognitive skills are fundamental to human development from early childhood. Today we know that their influence extends well beyond those early years. A study by Young Lives delved into the association between these skills and educational outcomes in adolescence and young adulthood, early nutrition, and climate variations. Access the publications discussed by Santiago Cueto, Alan […]
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Eduardo Zegarra’s shares his thoughts on access to drinking water in Lima via Le Monde
“Of course Sedapal could connect these areas to the public network, but it would be extremely costly and they have very few resources. So there is little political interest, these areas are not a priority.” Eduardo Zegarra, senior researcher at GRADE, writes in the newspaper Le Monde about the water problem in Lima that mainly […]
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Regional Heterogeneities in Labor Markets: A World to Explore, by Miguel Jaramillo
“It is not necessarily the largest cities where the highest activity rates are observed. In fact, Metropolitan Lima, by far the largest city in the country, is toward the middle of the distribution, with two-thirds of its working-age population active in the labor market.” Our senior researcher Miguel Jaramillo writes about the importance of having […]