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Patricia del Río’s op-ed highlights Lorena Alcázar’s study on the economic impact of anaemia in Peru
Journalist Patricia del Río warned about anaemia numbers reported by the 2016 Encuesta Demográfica y de Salud Familiar (Demographic and Family Health Survey): “More than 40% of children under 3 years have anaemia”, and highlighted the main finding of Lorena Alcázar’s study on the economic impact of this disease in the country: the cost of anaemia for Peruvian society reached approximately S/2.777 […]
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Peru: If You Think You Can Get Smarter, You Will
Get a closer look at the evidence on the impact of “Expand your Mind”, a low-cost and short-term innovation conducted by researchers Ingo Outes from University of Oxford, Alan Sánchez from the Group for the Analysis of Development, and Renos Vakis from the World Bank, with the aim to conveying to students the idea that intelligence can grow […]
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To govern and to serve: a new book synthesizes lessons from a 30-country study of education, roads and water services
The Global Development Network (GDN) and the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE) co-hosted the launch of the new book, ‘Improving Access and Quality of Public Services in Latin America: To Govern and To Serve’ at the GRADE offices in Barranco, Lima on Thursday the 15th of June, 2017. During her opening speech, […]
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The quality of public investment without land planning, by Alvaro Espinoza and Ricardo Fort
Why is urban public investment poorly prioritized, disjointed and fragmented? Read the article by our researchers, Álvaro Espinoza y Ricardo Fort, published in La Mula, with the main findings of their study on the quality of public investment without land planning in vulnerable neighborhoods in Lima.
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Miguel Jaramillo was a speaker in two international think tank meetings, as part of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing
About 200 people of think tank executives, former politicians and scholars from more than 40 countries attended the Thematic Session on Think Tank Exchanges of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, on May 14, in Beijing. During the session, attendees discussed the opportunities to strenghten collaboration between think tanks from countries involved in […]
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Sobre mejoras en aprendizajes, por Patricia Mc Lauchlan de Arregui
Sorry, this entry is only available in Español.
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CALL FOR PAPERS: 2017 Annual Congress of the Peruvian Economic Association
The Peruvian Economic Association (PEA) invites to submit papers for its 2017 Annual Congress, hosted by the Universidad de Lima and the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE) on August 11th-12th, at the Universidad de Lima campus. The papers (in English or Spanish) must be submitted until May 31, in PDF format to the following email […]
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Lights, shadows and pendings issues in education, by Santiago Cueto
“The ECE have contributed to set the learnings at the center of educational concerns”, stated Santiago Cueto, Research Director at GRADE, Country Coordinator of Young Lives in Peru and member of the Consejo Nacional de Educación, in El Comercio, on the sidelines of the 2016 national censal assessment of student performance (Evaluación Censal de Estudiantes or ECE in Spanish).
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The contribution of GRADE and a terrible Niño, by Gustavo Yamada (Universidad del Pacífico)
Gustavo Yamada, Director at the Universidad del Pacífico Research Center, highlights in El Comercio the book published for our 35 years of foundation, “Investigación para el desarrollo en el Perú: once balances” (Research for development in Peru: eleven research reviews): “It is worth reading it. Javier Escobal states that one of the book’s recurring messages is […]
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It turns out that our social capital was better than we thought!
Why in Peru do we see a social capital in action that is not consistent with international statictics in Peru? Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, discussed in Foco Económico on the country’s low social capital in international measurements, in contrast to the solidarity of thousand of Peruvians during the national disaster as a consequence of the coastal […]
