Opinion Article
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Manuel Glave talks about the Paris Agreement, the US withdrawal and the pending commitments of Peru
According to our senior researcher, Manuel Glave, the United States withdrawal from the Paris Agreement against climate change, “should not mean Peru and the Andean countries do not continue their duty to set public policies aimed at fulfilling their commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions”. The video was published by Alan Fairlie, Andean Parliamentary Representative.
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Legislation for gender equity: when good intentions are not enough
For helping improve the design of policies that promote gender equity in employment, our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo, analyzes the problems of two recently approved law projects. The article was published by the blog Foco Económico.
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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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Sobre mejoras en aprendizajes, por Patricia Mc Lauchlan de Arregui
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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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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 […]
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Water is not the problem, it is us, by Eduardo Zegarra
Eduardo Zegarra, senior researcher at GRADE, proposes in Ojo Público to raise the National Water Authority (ANA) to a status similar to that of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru: “Without a strong authority at the central level, and without real water authorities, what remains is a weak eggshell and hesitant of state officials who have no […]
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On institutions, social norms and speed bumps
What does the proliferation of speed bumps in Lima tell us about our institutionality? We share and article authored by Miguel Jaramillo, Executive Director at GRADE, published by América Economía Perú magazine, as part of its special issue on the Annual Conference of Business Executives 2016.
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Ideas for better policies. Miguel Jaramillo’s op-ed in On Think Tanks Annual Report 2016
“We believe that pluralism is an essential atribute of the community of think tanks in democratic societies. However, developing countries typically lack strong communities of this sort”. Read our executive director, Miguel Jaramillo‘s op-ed in On Think Tanks annual report 2016, an initiative focused on the development of policy research institutes or think tanks.
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Why regulate the educational services market? 11 reasons
How to regulate the market for educational services? To answer this question, Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, address 11 arguments in Foco Económico blog to explain in which way this particular market differs from the free competition model.
