Opinion Article
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Do informal entrepreneurs want to formalize? Wishful thinking versus reality, by Miguel Jaramillo
“The problem is not registering, the problem is living every day in formality. As long as the burdens associated with being formal are not rationalized, formalization will be nothing more than a nice wish that succumbs to reality.” Based on rigorous evidence, our Senior Researcher Miguel Jaramillo explains why formalization is not desirable for microentrepreneurs. Read […]
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“Adolescence”: The violence we normalize, by Vanessa Rojas
“Their identities would be taking shape in these physical and virtual environments marked by this structural violence that, unfortunately, reproduce discourses that promote not only hierarchical power relations between men and women, but also misogyny.” Our senior researcher Vanessa Rojas reflects on the themes explored in the Adolescence series. Read her full article in Ojo […]
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Niños del Milenio (Young Lives): a generation marked by inequality, by Antonio Campos
“Young women are persistently less likely to be employed than young men, with a gender gap in employment that was 10 percentage points at age 15, and has increased to 22 percentage points at age 22.” Antonio Campos, Adjunct Researcher at GRADE, analyzes the factors that hinder access to stable jobs and adequate working conditions […]
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Invisible traps: gender gaps that mark the future of young Peruvian women, by Vanessa Rojas
“Evidence shows that gender gaps persist and that we have not made much progress in preventing traditional gender roles and imposed expectations from continuing to limit women and restrict their opportunities.” In the framework of International Women’s Day, Vanessa Rojas, Senior Researcher at GRADE, reflects on how gender inequalities mean that being young and female […]
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The great master who left, by Manuel Glave
‘In memory of an American economist who took Peru in his mind and heart’. Our senior researcher Manuel Glave shares a heartfelt article in tribute to Shane Hunt, who passed away last weekend. Professor Hunt’s work covered the analysis of the Peruvian economy from a broad historical framework. A review of his book, The Formation […]
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The Peruvian labor market in 2024: no place for young people, by Miguel Jaramillo
“It seems incredible how little attention the issue of young people receives, when its possible consequences can already be glimpsed: those who can leave the country: those who cannot, turn to the ‘easy’ money of crime”. Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, writes about the decay of formal youth employment in Peru. Read the full article in […]
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Multidimensional poverty: more important than the label is the content, by Javier Herrera and Javier Escobal
“The indicator that Midis would adopt combines only indicators that can be collected in the same survey, ignoring key elements like those related to malnutrition and anemia, indicators of quality of education and quality of access to public services, as well as indicators linked to violence and citizen security”. Javier Herrera, Visiting Professor at PUCP, and Javier […]
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Escobal and Herrera: Decree that Goverment wants to aprove puts statistical system under threat, why?
“By transferring INEI’s own functions to Midis, the Supreme Decree proposed by the Government is a threat to the credibility of non-monetary poverty indicators”. Javier Escobal, Senior Researcher at GRADE, and Javier Herrera, Visiting Professor at PUCP, both members of the Consultative Commission on Poverty Measurment. write about the implications of a proposed Supreme Decree that questions the […]
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Off days: Second jobs and informality in Peru, by Miguel Jaramillo
“From the perspective of our regulation, the high rate of second jobs is paradoxical, given the preference for the full-time contract over indefinite time, which leads our jurisconsultants to consider fixed-term labor contracts as “atypical”, when in reality it is the most frequent form of contracting”. Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, writes about second jobs […]
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The urgency of critical pedagogies to transform reality, by Maria Fernanda Rodriguez
“It is in the incorporation of reality into school knowledge where the potential for the transformation of reality itself is found”. Our Adjunct Researcher María Fernanda Rodríguez collects the findings of the JustEd Educational Justice project to discuss the concept of shallow pedagogies as a form of epistemic injustice in Peru. Read the article in […]
