Opinion Article
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The National Educational Project to 2036, by Santiago Cueto
“The PEN’s considerations on full citizenship and strengthening democracy are relevant to the current context. […] The pandemic has made inequities very evident or has exacerbated. Aprendo en Casa and the program to close digital gaps point in the direction However, we constantly hear stories of students who cannot regularly connect to their classes due […]
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Come On, Guys: It’s Time Men Got More Involved at Home, by Hugo Ñopo
“One of the biggest hurdles women face when it comes to professional opportunities lies at home. We — husbands, fathers, sons and brothers — are largely responsible for the inequality that stems from our own behavior in the household. And we do this to the people we love!”. Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, writes in Americas Quaterly […]
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When the “good” neighborhoods ruin the “bad” ones, by Wilson Hernández
“When an adolescent lives in a vulnerable neighborhood, his propensity to commit a crime is greater when there are people with less vulnerability in the surroundings neighborhoods. But, according to the aforementioned study, this is not the case when the surroundings neighborhoods are also vulnerable”. Our adjunct researcher Wilson Hernández highlighted the findings of a […]
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Más allá de los transgénicos: tecnología e innovación para una nueva revolución verde en el Perú, por Ricardo Fort
Hoy el Congreso debate la moratoria al ingreso y producción de productos transgénicos. Si bien los organismos modificados han generado debate por la posibilidad de tener efectos negativos sobre la biodiversidad y la salud, así como por la concentración de patentes, existen otros avances tecnológicos que podrían mejorar los cultivos y las condiciones de los […]
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Teenage childbearing as inequality, by Wilson Hernández
“Teenage mothers are concentrated in certain areas of Lima. Not only that. In addition, living in a neighborhood where there is a pregnant adolescent increases the probability of becoming such. This would be a kind of ‘social contagion’ in an environment that also normalizes motherhood when it is not very high in the neighborhood. ” […]
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Labor market in pandemic, when the procession goes inside (from home), by Hugo Ñopo
“The component of informality that has increased the most is that of unpaid family workers. These are workers who, although from their condition they reduce the unemployment rate, they increase the informality rate. […] This is a subtle form of job insecurity, inside the home “. Read the new op-ed by Hugo Ñopo, GRADE’s senior researcher, […]
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The failed and farcical start of FAE-Agro, now what?, by Eduardo Zegarra
“The Executive and Congress have the word (and the ability to act). Peruvian agriculture cannot continue to be mistreated in this way, with the sight and patience of all of us. It is not possible that we continue to pay our farmers like this, who with their effort and dedication feed us every day.” In the […]
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“Such things don’t happen to a young lady”, by Wilson Hernández
“Machismo is a headless monster. It is everywhere and nowhere. School and family are pointed out as spaces to change the way we conceive women and men. But what roles should the media play? of communication before comments to their news that blame the victims of the aggressions they suffer? “. In his new op-ed for […]
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Mining in Peru and Chile: the quality of dialogue needs to be lifted up, by Manuel Glave
Although Peru and Chile have implemented the Environmental Impact Assessment System (SEIA), it has little credibility and trust among populations and it has not been a mechanism that prevents socio-environmental conflict. In this Ojo Público article, our senior researcher Manuel Glave analyzes the mechanisms of citizen participation in territories with large-scale mining based on a recent study comparing both countries.
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State populism and the informal city, by Ricardo Fort
“The apparent sensitivity of this measure to the poorest and homeless families, in reality mainly benefits the land trafficking mafias, validating their promises of formality and future services, based on which they charge a higher price and invested their profitability”. Ricardo Fort, senior researcher at GRADE, writes in El Comercio about the new law for the formalization of […]
