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Thursday, 2 de January de 2025Álvaro Espinoza’s opinion on the housing shortage and challenges for access to formal housing in Peru
“Although the Techo Propio programme offers bonds to help families acquire housing, these bonds are conditioned to obtaining a mortgage loan, which is difficult in a country where more than 70% of the population works in the informal sector and is not considered creditworthy by banks”. Our Adjunct Researcher Álvaro Espinoza shares his thoughts on the challenges […]
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Tuesday, 3 de December de 2024
GRADE researchers join the XXXV Annual CIES 2024 Research Seminar
Del 11 al 13 de diciembre, investigadoras e investigadores de GRADE serán expositores, comentaristas y moderadores en el XXXV Seminario Anual de Investigación CIES 2024. El evento, organizado por el Consorcio de Investigación Económica y Social (CIES) de manera híbrida, abordará el tema “Retos y perspectivas del Perú y América Latina: inversión, sostenibilidad y cohesión social”. A continuación, […]
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Sunday, 2 de June de 2024
Alvaro Espinoza will be a presenter at the Expo Real Estate Perú 2024
As part of the Expo Real Estate Perú 2024, our Adjunct Researcher Alvaro Espinoza will be one of the presenters of the study “Quantification and characterization of self-construction in Peru”, conducted by GRADE, commissioned by the Association of Real Estate Developers of Peru (ADI Peru).
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Wednesday, 29 de May de 2024
Alvaro Espinoza’s opinion: Seven out of every 10 homes in the national urban area are self-built
“It is construction without plans, on the fly, without respecting standards and structural safety. The people who build just repeat what was done in a previous work. There are houses that use even more material than they need because there are no correct calculations either.” Our Adjunct Researcher Alvaro Espinoza shared his opinion in a […]
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Tuesday, 9 de April de 2024
“Urban expansion should have been planned since the project began to be considered”. Alvaro Espinoza’s opinion on Chancay’s mega-port
“For them to start worrying about how the city is going to expand at this point is untimely. Urban expansion should have been planned since the project began to be considered”. Alvaro Espinoza, adjunct researcher at GRADE, writes in El Comercio about the housing demands due to the construction of the Chancay mega-port.
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Thursday, 24 de August de 2023
Espinoza and Fort’s study on urban expansion of the last 20 years in Peru is quoted in Somos Periodismo PUCP
“For those with scarce resources, the option is to invade a plot of land or buy it in the illegal market. According to a study conducted by GRADE, 93% of the country’s urban expansion is developed informally”. Somos Periodismo PUCP quoted the study by our researchers Alvaro Espinoza and Ricardo Fort on the internal dynamics […]
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Tuesday, 27 de June de 2023
Alvaro Espinoza: “What most modern cities are trying to do is to have more integrated cities”
“What most modern cities are trying to do is to have more integrated cities, where you have people from different socioeconomic sectors and walks of life living in a more mixed way. That makes the city more efficient and people are closer to where they study and where they work.” Our Adjunct Researcher Alvaro Espinoza […]
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Wednesday, 22 de February de 2023
Migraciones in pandemic. GRADE Conversa 17 featuring Mauricio Espinoza.
Peru has been one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic in the world. Due to the health crisis, in March 2020 the government established a compulsory confinement that caused the paralysis of several economic sectors and a historic increase in the unemployment rate. Despite the vouchers provided, households that depended on the informal […]
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Friday, 9 de December de 2022
El impacto de la pandemia en el sistema de distribución de alimentos del Perú: los mercados de abastos minoristas
During 2020, the COVID-19 health emergency tested the effectiveness and resilience of Peru’s food distribution system, particularly in its most important part: traditional food markets, where more than half of household food expenditure is concentrated. The shock manifested itself in two dimensions: the reduction in demand for food from a suddenly impoverished population, and the […]
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Monday, 29 de August de 2022
GRADE 40 years | Book Launch “El Perú pendiente: ensayos para un desarrollo con bienestar”
El Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE) organizes the launch of the book “El Perú pendiente: ensayos para un desarrollo con bienestar” (The Pending Peru: essays for a development with well-being), as part of the commemorative celebration for its forty years of institutional life. The book is a collection of essays that, from different conceptual and […]
