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Meeting the Left Behind Youth in Peru, by Lorena Alcazar
Young people in Peru face tremendous challenges in both qualities of education and access to decent work. In this Southern Voice article, our Senior Researcher Lorena Alcázar shares relevant findings on the conditions of those left behind in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in our country and how to help them.
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GRADE joins a new research project on investigating the changes in productivity of the Humboldt Current
The international kick-off meeting of the project “Social-Ecological Tipping Points of the Northern Humboldt Current Upwelling System, Economic Repercussions and Governance Strategies” was held in Lima from March 19 to 21. The event gathered the Peruvian partners Instituto del Mar del Peru (IMARPE), the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE) and 35 stakeholders. Our […]
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María Balarin: “La respuesta que la ley plantea es promover una mayor transparencia de parte de los proveedores de servicios educativos privados hacia los padres de familia”. Pensiones de colegios particulares en debate
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Start of classes. Santiago Cueto: ‘We must look for the balanced development of the people’
‘We must look for the balanced development of the people. If some children receive a lot of pressure from their families and they are very good in the academic field, but they fail to develop social and emotional skills, one could not call that a successful education’. Listen to the interview with our executive director, […]
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Rural poverty exacerbates in Peru and Latin America
Nuestro investigador principal, Eduardo Zegarra, fue entrevistado en la revista belga Sos Faim sobre pobreza rural en el Perú. A continuación, compartimos la reproducción traducida al español de la entrevista completa: El último informe de las Naciones Unidas sobre la pobreza rural en América Latina y el Caribe señala que los países de estas regiones enfrentan […]
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Miguel Jaramillo: Employment growth would be expected from 2% to 2.5%
“It is reasonable to expect an employment growth rate between 2% and 2.5% for this year. How much of that will be formal employment? I do not think there will be much change in the structure, unless it really advances rapidly in fighting some of the issues that generate additional costs in the labor market”. Miguel […]
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Property tax: innovate for better governing, by Ricardo Fort and Alvaro Espinoza
Our researchers Ricardo Fort and Álvaro Espinoza shared a concrete and low cost proposal in order to improve the municipal governance and to increase the property tax collection using modern technology. Read the full text in Gestión Newspaper.
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Preliminary findings of Young Marriage and Parenthood Study (YMAPS) in Peru
Vanessa Rojas, Adjunct Researcher at GRADE and Coordinator of the Qualitative Component of Young Lives in Peru, shared in Radio Nacional the preliminary findings of the Young Marriage and Parenthood (YMAPS) qualitative studies, show the perceptions of young women and men about their experiences in cohabitation, pregnancy, maternity/paternity to an early age. Qualitative evidence of […]
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Alfredo Thorne, ex Minister of Economy and Finance, highlights Miguel Jaramillo’s findings on short-term contracts
What is expected from an economy in transformation? The research findings of our senior researcher Miguel Jaramillo on short-term contracts are highlighted by Alfredo Thorne, ex Minister of Economy and Finance. The main conclusion of the study is that there is a great labor mobility within formal employment: workers move between jobs, allowing them to migrate to more productive […]
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Santiago Cueto talks about GRADE’s work in PUCP’s Master in Social Management radio
“In GRADE we produce research studies that reach relevant conclusions for the development and review of public politics, and for decision-making that contributes to the wellbeing of the Peruvian population”. Listen to the full interview with Santiago Cueto, Executive Director and Senior Researcher at GRADE, in Space for Management, radio of the Master in Social […]
