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Eduardo Zegarra in Canal N about the second agrarian reform fostered by the Government
“The announcement of giving additional tax exemptions to the agro-export sector is the complete opposite of the second agrarian reform approach, which is rather oriented towards the majority family farming in the country. It is understood that the agro-export sector already has enough benefits and, more efforts must be directed towards this sector (family farming). […]
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Eduardo Zegarra in La República: “The agrarian reform is about to become an unfulfilled promise”
“The government is in a very serious problem, without urea, the next agricultural campaign will be a total failure and there will be a drop in production that could reach 30%. […] One of the proposals of the second agrarian reform is to build national capacity to produce fertilizers”. Eduardo Zegarra, Senior Researcher at GRADE and […]
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María Balarin and María Fernanda Rodríguez are part of an upcoming report on how education in emergencies, done properly, builds peace
Our researchers María Balarin and María Fernanda Rodríguez have been part of the preparation of a report exploring the obstacles and opportunities for education’s engagement with peace. The document will soon be launched by the Geneva Global Hub for Education in Emergencies. The report presents a framework to help analyze and recognize the impact of historical, epistemic, […]
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Eduardo Zegarra in Sudaca Peru: social mobilization for the agrarian strike
“After the pandemic, a new problem has hit the agricultural sector even more: the sharp increase in the price of fertilizers. First the price of urea doubled, then it tripled, and we are currently in a serious problem of shortages [… ] Peru imports 100% of the urea. We do not produce it internally. This […]
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Hitting the AFP like piñatas, by Hugo Ñopo
“The private pension system was born with an original sin: trying to turn the right to a decent retirement into a commodity with high commissions”. Read the new weekly column by Hugo Ñopo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, for Jugo de Caigua about the new retirement of AFP (Pension Fund Administrators) approved by the Economy Commission of our […]
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Miguel Jaramillo in Sudaca Perú: What is going on in the labour sector?
“What this bill does is make formal hiring more expensive. It will be more difficult for the most productive companies to hire more workers. There’s not much to look forward to in terms of productivity gains. The only beneficiaries of this code are workers who have a permanent contract and, particularly, unionized workers. [However] unionization […]
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Informalities, margins and dimensions, by Hugo Ñopo
“When we say that informality in the country reaches 72% of workers, we are adding all those who do not contribute to health or pensions, putting very different realities in the same bag. One part of this informality is combated with inspection, another Some (in fact, the vast majority) do not. Making the distinctions is […]
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Eduardo Zegarra on water management in Peru: a case study of the Ica Valley
“El estudio apunta a entender el vínculo entre el agua, la alimentación y la energía en un espacio específico en el que hay varios problemas con el uso del agua. Uno de los principales problemas es que la agricultura en el Valle de Ica básicamente usa el agua del acuífero. Hay evidencia de que el […]
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RPP Noticias: Eduardo Zegarra on the reduction of the entry of fertilizers to Peru
RPP Noticias highlighted the opinion of our Senior Researcher Eduardo Zegarra in the newspaper Gestión on the current shortage of fertilizers and its impact on the agricultural sector. “Per month the producers require at least 40,000 tons and they were only entering 5,000 tons per month and now it is zero, everything has stopped. Future […]
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TV Perú: Eduardo Zegarra’s on the VAT exemption for five foods
“It is a measure with problems. One is that the reduction will not necessarily go to the final consumer. It is also quite regressive, because it favors those with greater purchasing power. It is better to make a program of direct economic support to families in poverty or in vulnerability, more or less 50% of […]
