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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 […]
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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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Opinión de Eduardo Zegarra sobre la ley de semillas transgénicas en el Perú. Vía Mongabay
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Eduardo Zegarra’s opinion on tax exemptions to the agro-export sector. Via Ojo Público
“Agrarian economist Eduardo Zegarra warns that the agro-export sector already enjoys an excessive level of subsidies and exemptions. He points out that 80% of these benefits are concentrated in only 150 exporting companies. If the so-called Chlimper Law is approved, the benefits would reach historic levels”. Opinion of our Senior Researcher on tax exonerations in the agro-export […]
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Do informal entrepreneurs want to formalize? Wishful thinking versus reality, by Miguel Jaramillo
“The problem is not registering, the problem is living every day in formality. As long as the burdens associated with being formal are not rationalized, formalization will be nothing more than a nice wish that succumbs to reality.” Based on rigorous evidence, our Senior Researcher Miguel Jaramillo explains why formalization is not desirable for microentrepreneurs. Read […]
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“Adolescence”: The violence we normalize, by Vanessa Rojas
“Their identities would be taking shape in these physical and virtual environments marked by this structural violence that, unfortunately, reproduce discourses that promote not only hierarchical power relations between men and women, but also misogyny.” Our senior researcher Vanessa Rojas reflects on the themes explored in the Adolescence series. Read her full article in Ojo […]
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GRADE Conversa 24: Subjective Well-Being and Mental Health, featuring Vanessa Rojas
Covid-19 hit Peru hard and youth were a highly affected group. In 2023, the qualitative component of Young Lives Longitudinal Study collected the voices of youth participants about their well-being and mental health in a post-conflict and pandemic context. Listen to a new episode of our podcast GRADE Conversa featuring Vanessa Rojas, Senior Researcher at […]
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World Water Day: a selection of free access resources
Although Peru has abundant water resources, their distribution in the territory and for families is very unequal: for example, we still have 3 million people who do not have household drinking water service. Let us also remember the water crisis that Piura experienced at the end of last year due to the reduction in the […]
