Interview
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Néstor Valdivia in a TV Perú reportage on the history of censuses in Peru
“Mestizaje has been understood as a form of denial of Indigenous ethnicity, and I believe this is mistaken. Beginning in the 1940s and 1950s, the ‘de-Indigenization’ of the Indigenous population did not imply a denial of their identity, but rather a different way of constructing it.” Our research associate Néstor Valdivia participated in a recent […]
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Rising youth unemployment: What are the risks?
“Although positive employment growth rates have been seen in the last year in particular, this recovery is not improving the situation for young people, who have suffered the most from labor market problems.” At the 2025 Annual Conference of Executives (CADE Ejecutivos), Miguel Jaramillo, senior researcher at GRADE, spoke with Radio Programas del Perú about […]
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Election campaign and environmental issues: interview with Manuel Glave
“Fighting deforestation not only involves combating illegal mining and drug trafficking, but also tackling rural poverty and establishing rules to promote businesses in the Amazon that do not affect primary forests. Then we need a political agreement to ensure that protected areas and indigenous areas are properly respected. Nor can we undermine the capacity of […]
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Miguel Jaramillo: “Clearly, employment is not a priority for the government”
“People are so skeptical about finding employment that they are not participating in the labor market”, said Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, in an interview with the newspaper Gestión, considering the measures taken in recent months. Thus, some indicators related to private investment suggest a “revival”, but this is not translating into job creation […]
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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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Santiago Cueto on Epicentro.TV: Initial findings from the round 7 of the Young Lives survey in Peru
“A person born into a poor, rural, indigenous family, in general, is going to attend a lower quality school, is going to have lower educational attainment, is less likely to enter college, and is less likely to have the income of his or her more fortunate peers.” Our Senior Researcher Santiago Cueto spoke with Epicentro.TV’s […]
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Mango crisis in the north of Peru. Interview to Eduardo Zegarra in Surco Norteño
“There has not been a problem of overproduction, but the mango production we have has entered to compete at an inappropriate time. These are disorders that have to do with the phenological cycle and temperature, announced by Senamhi. […] The ministry should look for better ways to provide information, allow planning, promote cooperativism, improve conditions […]
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Interview with Eduardo Zegarra on U.S. President’s statements on the Panama Canal
“It is not true that the canal can charge differentiated tariffs for any country, because basically what they have is a generalized tariff system that applies to any customer who wants to use the canal. […] In the coming years, it is critical to see how the canal manages water and alternatives for its use. […]
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Eduardo Zegarra shares his opinion on the implications of the Chlimper Law. Via the Regional Communication Network
“Between 4000-5000 companies, for example, are under the agrarian regime, but only 150 receive more than 92% of the tax benefits of this rule. There is no benefit for family agriculture, which is often at the subsistence level, because it basically does not pay income tax”. Eduardo Zegarra, senior researcher at GRADE, comments on the […]
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Eduardo Zegarra on Radio Nacional: “Piura’s agriculture cannot use water”.
“Right now, agriculture in Piura cannot use the water, which could lead to a rather complicated agricultural crisis. But it is not only that, but also the consumers themselves in Piura, Sullana and other cities would run out of water in the coming weeks.” Our senior researcher Eduardo Zegarra gave his opinion on the water […]
