Events
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Santiago Cueto will be a speaker at the UNMSM III International Seminar on Comparative Education
The findings during fifteen years of research of the longitudinal study Young Lives Peru will be shared by Santiago Cueto, country coordinator and senior researchers at GRADE, on the second day of the III International Seminar on Comparative Education. The event, hedl by the Faculty of Education of the National University of San Marcos, will take […]
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GRADE, IEP and Colat Antitabaco held a seminar on tax policy and demand for tobacco in Peru
The “Tax Policy and Demand for Tobacco in Peru” seminar, held by GRADE, the Peruvian Studies Institute (IEP) and the National Permanent Anti-Tobacco Control Commission (Colat) brought together forty specialists on health and tobacco control. The event began with the presentation of Oscar Boggio, national consultant for chronic diseases of the Pan American Health Organization, […]
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Lorena Alcázar shared the findings of her Southern Voice study on those left behind in SDG 4 and SDG 8 in Peru
Southern Voice, the United Nations Foundation and Espacio Público held a panel on the synergies between Sustainable Development Goal 8 (decent employment) and Sustainable Development Goal 4 (quality education) and its implications in Latin America. Both goals are part of the High-Level Policy Forum 2019 review. In the event, the findings of the mismatch between the education […]
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Santiago will share the scope of the Connecting Ideas project at the SUMMA-laCaixa Foundation international seminar on ICT and teacher training
How to use global evidence on effective practices to improve teacher training? How to use ICTs to accelerate the impact and scaling of best practices? How to advance in the improvement of learning, attending simultaneously to the challenges of quality, equity and educational inclusion? These are the questions that frame the international seminar Promoting teacher […]
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María Balarin joined the XVIII Annual Regional Civil Society and IDB Forum on the future of work in Latin America and the Caribbean
María Balarin, Research Director at GRADE, joined the XVIII Regional Civil Society and IDB Annual Regional Forum on the future of work in Latin America and the Caribbean. Attendees visited the stand of Peru, with publications and brochures of GRADE and Grupo Sofia.
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Martín Valdivia will be a speaker at the opening of the 2019 World Savings Week
Our senior researcher, Martín Valdivia, will be one of the speakers at the opening conference of the 2019 World Savings Week, an international initiative of Child and Youth Finance International (CYFI), held in Peru by the Superintendency of Banking, Insurance and AFP in Peru (SBS). The event, from March 25 to 31, brings together various […]
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Martín Valdivia will share the research project “Demand sensitivity and tobacco taxes” at a MEF-GRADE-IEP seminar
The Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF), the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE), and the Institute of Peruvian Studies (IEP) organize the academic seminar “Tax Policy and Demand for Tobacco”. Our senior researcher, Martín Valdivia, will share the research project “Demand sensitivity and tobacco taxes: a cross-sectional analysis” (visit the project’s Twitter account). Next, […]
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Call: 2019 Young Lives Peru’s Methodological Workshop
Do you want to learn the methods and data of the largest longitudinal study currently carried out in Peru? Apply until March 22 to the 2019 Young Lives Peru’s Methodological Workshop. The Workshop will take place from April 3 to 5, 2019. Thanks to the Old Dart Foundation, the 20 selected will join the Workshop at no cost. In […]
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Santiago Cueto will share research findings on the OLPC program at the 2019 Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness conference
The 2019 Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness conference brings the tensions and tradeoffs among the questions practitioners and researchers study – and the decisions and constraints practitioners and researchers face. Some of these tensions are: demands for quick-turnaround versus long-term research, demands for generalizable versus locally-based findings, demands to make decisions on topics not well studied, […]
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Young Lives Peru launched its new study on the development of relevant skills in youth and decent employment
El estudio longitudinal Niños del Milenio lanzó su estudio “Desigualdad de oportunidades en Perú: ¿Cómo pueden los jóvenes desarrollar habilidades relevantes y encontrar un empleo decente en un mercado laboral que cambia rápidamente?”. La investigación se llevará a cabo entre enero de 2019 y diciembre de 2020. El estudio es coordinado internacionalmente por la Universidad de Heriot-Watt y […]
