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Low-cost private schools in Peru: the high cost of low quality?
We share an article on the main findings of the recent study “Low-cost private education in Peru: a quality approach”, conducted by researchers from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and GRADE with the support of Unite for Quality Education. The text highlights the impact of the low-fee private schools sector on both learning processes and learning […]
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Citizen participation could improve fiscal policy
After the 2017 Open Budget Survey publication, which revealed Peru as one of the most transparent countries on the allocation and execution of the public budget, but lagging behind in citizen participation in budgetary decisions, El Comercio highlighted the study of our senior reseacher, Miguel Jaramillo, along with Glenn Wright, who find that voluntary participatory […]
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Minister of Labor discusses Miguel Jaramillo’s findings on the effects of the 2001 labor contract reform on workers
In an interview by Jaime de Althaus for El Comercio, the Minister of Labor, Javier Barreda, discusses the findings of a study undertook by our senior researcher, Miguel Jaramillo, which finds a “correlation between a ruling of the Constitutional Court that allows the replacement in a job position (absolute stability) and the substantial increase in fixed-term contracts and […]
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Political analyst José Carlos Requena highlights a study by Juan José Díaz and Hugo Ñopo on the teaching career in Peru
Political analyst José Carlos Requena highlights the study of our senior researchers Juan José Díaz and Hugo Ñopo on the teaching career in Peru, which is part of the book for our 35th anniversary: “We believe that a fundamental incentive for the career is to increase its prestige and for this, it is a priority to improve the salaries of teachers”. […]
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Alfredo Torres’s op-ed highlights data by Hugo Ñopo on teacher salaries
The Executive Chairman at IPSOS Perú, Alfredo Torres, highlights data on teacher salaries, published by our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo in Twitter: “No one argues that teacher salaries should improve, but the they are also improving. According to calculations by Hugo Ñopo, researcher at GRADE, their salaries at constant prices are now less than half that in the 1960s, but also […]
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The political analyst Fernando Rospligiosi highlights data by Hugo Ñopo on the evolution of teacher salaries
The political analyst Fernando Rospigliosi gathers data by our senior researcher Hugo Ñopo on teacher salaries between 1950 and 2016, to explain the decline of salary in this sector, on the sidelines of the teacher strike: “According to data from Hugo Ñopo and GRADE, the average salary of teachers at their best, in the first government of Fernando Belaunde, was […]
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Carolina Trivelli recommends GRADE’s 35th Anniversary research reviews
Carolina Trivelli recommends our 35th Anniversary book, “Investigación para el desarrollo en el Perú (Research for Development in Peru)“. In her op-ed published in Perú 21, two research reviews stand out: “Sanchez and Rodriguez discuss the impacts of Juntos, answering several of the demands that demand for more evaluation, and they make clear for what this intervention serves and where there are […]
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A radiography of informality. El Comercio highlighted Miguel Jaramillo’s study on the demand for formality among microfirms
The Peruvian Institute of Economics (IPE) published an article on the evidence around informality. For this, gathers our Executive Director Miguel Jaramillo’s findings on the demand for formality among microfirms in Downtown Lima, Is there demand for formality among informal firms? Evidence from microfirms in downtown Lima (GRADE 2013): “The study reports that only one out of […]
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Jaime de Althaus highlights Miguel Jaramillo’s study of 2004 on the regulation of labor market in Peru
In his op-ed titled “Overregulation is not ideological”, journalist Jaime de Althaus highlights one of Miguel Jaramillo’s findings of 2004 on the regulation of labor market in Peru: “There is the myth that in the 90’s labor was desregulated and therefore precarious and informalized. But the truth is that non-wage labor costs (“benefits”) went from 48% […]
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Patricia del Río’s op-ed highlights Lorena Alcázar’s study on the economic impact of anaemia in Peru
Journalist Patricia del Río warned about anaemia numbers reported by the 2016 Encuesta Demográfica y de Salud Familiar (Demographic and Family Health Survey): “More than 40% of children under 3 years have anaemia”, and highlighted the main finding of Lorena Alcázar’s study on the economic impact of this disease in the country: the cost of anaemia for Peruvian society reached approximately S/2.777 […]
