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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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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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Election campaign and environmental issues: interview with Manuel Glave
“Fighting deforestation not only involves combating illegal mining and drug trafficking, but also tackling rural poverty and establishing rules to promote businesses in the Amazon that do not affect primary forests. Then we need a political agreement to ensure that protected areas and indigenous areas are properly respected. Nor can we undermine the capacity of […]
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Droughts in the Peruvian highlands reveal the limitations of Catastrophic Agricultural Insurance. Opinion by Eduardo Zegarra via Altavoz
According to Eduardo Zegarra, Senior Researcher at GRADE, the Catastrophic Agricultural Insurance scheme does not meet the needs of agriculture, where crops such as potatoes, corn, and Andean grains depend exclusively on rainfall. Read his full opinion in this article from the news website Altavoz here.
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Miguel Jaramillo: “Clearly, employment is not a priority for the government”
“People are so skeptical about finding employment that they are not participating in the labor market”, said Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, in an interview with the newspaper Gestión, considering the measures taken in recent months. Thus, some indicators related to private investment suggest a “revival”, but this is not translating into job creation […]
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¡Convocatoria abierta! IV Curso Ciencias Sociales para la Conservación
Los interesados podrán inscribirse hasta el viernes 5 de setiembre de 2025 adjuntando una carta de presentación, una carta de recomendación, una propuesta de investigación y una hoja de vida. El curso iniciará el jueves 02 de octubre, e incluirá una etapa virtual y dos etapas presenciales. Descarga los términos de la CONVOCATORIA. La falta […]
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Strengthening Justice in Education in Adverse Times, by María Balarin and Lizzi O. Milligan
“School experiences, despite the different curricular and pedagogical models in each country, seemed characterised by what we came to describe as shallow pedagogies, which, we argue, constitute a major form of epistemic injustice that seriously limits the contribution that education can make towards necessary societal transformations.” María Balarin and Lizzi O. Milligan present key findings from […]
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Those who are left over: young people in the employment recovery, by Miguel Jaramillo
“Between 2019 and 2024 we see a seven percentage point drop in their labor market participation rate and, as a consequence, there has been an even greater drop in the proportion of young people generating an income”. In his latest op-ed in El Comercio, Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, writes about the employment situation […]
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Eduardo Zegarra: “A young farmer is twice as likely to live in poverty”
According to our Senior Researcher, Eduardo Zegarra, the low interest of young people in agriculture has a clear explanation: “Agricultural poverty is twice as high as in the non-agricultural population. A young farmer is twice as likely to live in poverty”. Read the full interview in Agroperú magazine here.
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New report on resilience in education systems in Latin America and the Caribbean
The AdaptED Observatory presents its first report on how education resilience is understood and incorporated in the systems of 11 GPE partner countries. Review and download the report. The Observatory for Educational Resilience in Latin America and the Caribbean, AdaptED, has published its first report that seeks to open the conversation, be shared and commented […]
