Opinion Article
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Why have we had such poor health results in the face of COVID-19 ?, by Miguel Jaramillo and Kristian López
“The most lethal error of the first months of the pandemic was one made up of economics and epidemiology: the poor determination of the social value of the massification of diagnostic tests and contact tracing.” Miguel Jaramillo, senior researcher at GRADE, and Kristian López, director of LEEPS Laboratory, characterize the poor performance of the COVID ー […]
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What to change and what to keep ?, by Hugo Ñopo
Our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo, gathered the opinion of 23 Peruvian economists on what should and should not change in the country’s economy in the next five years. Topics such as social protection, taxation, labor formality, macroeconomic management, free trade, private investment, social programs, educational policies, among others, were addressed. Read his new article in […]
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The poor is not foolish, stop foolishness, by Hugo Ñopo
“Poverty and vulnerability hit the immediate quality of life very hard, but as or more important is the limitation that this imposes on decision-making for the future. It is easy to judge the poor from the outside, attributing responsibility for their condition, but the reality is different”. Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, writes on low social […]
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Were we condemned to the pandemic debacle?, by Miguel Jaramillo and Kristian Lopez Vargas
Was Peru condemned to have so many deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic? How do we compare to other countries? How much of this debacle is explained by the strategy followed, and how much by our social indicators and the dire situation of our health system? Read the new op-ed for El Comercio by Miguel Jaramillo, GRADE’s […]
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Unpaid Family Work: Informal and no income, by Hugo Ñopo
“These people are probably in one of the most beautiful forms of cooperation and solidarity, but also in one of the most precarious working conditions. Is there anything more precarious than a zero-income labor informality?” Our Senior Researcher Hugo Ñopo writes in Foco Economico about who and where are unpaid family workers in Peru. Gathering the annual […]
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The Agrarian Law in Limbo, Where to Go?, by Eduardo Zegarra
“The responsibility for this crisis is there, not in the workers who are desperate and have been harmed by this situation for so long. We hope that this time Congress and the Executive do realize that the most urgent thing is to solve this problem with measures that we believe are viable and make economic […]
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A victory of the agrarian workers?, by Miguel Jaramillo
“The most critical problem in the labor markets in our country, agricultural or in other sectors, is informality. Policies that want to favor workers should focus on this problem.” The new op-ed of our senior researcher Miguel Jaramillo for El Comercio addresses the repealed labor regime of the Agrarian Promotion Law.
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Wilson Hernández shares his opinion in El Comercio about the police reform: lay the foundations and propose a plan
What this government will do is lay the foundations for the police reform and propose a work plan for a commission to execute it as of July 28, 2021. But in these months of the transitional government, progress can be made on important issues”. According to our adjunct researcher, Wilson Hernández, these issues are three: improving the […]
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Sagasti’s administration and the agrarian agenda in the pandemic, by Eduardo Zegarra
“It is no small thing that the new government administration must face in the midst of a pandemic. […] Peruvian agriculture deserves a change of course now, with a vision of development and attention to the needs of our more than two million family farmers For the good of the country, we hope and hope […]
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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 […]
