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Jéssica Tapia: The diagnostic evaluation must be a collegiate task
“The institutions must conceive the diagnostic evaluation as a collective task. Design a plan that is necessarily carried out collegially with all the teachers and that, in addition, can be guided by the key processes of the formative evaluation”. Jéssica Tapia, coordinator of the Growing with the Multigrade Rural Schools in Peru (CREER) project and associate […]
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Patricia Arregui on TV Peru: CNE takes a stand on attendance at 100% capacity in classrooms
“We are convinced that the four measures as a whole (distancing, the use of the mask, ventilation and vaccination) are necessary. If one is loosened, because we recognize that it will be difficult to ensure a distance of one meter for all students, the others must be reinforced. […] It is necessary for children to […]
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Javier Escobal shares his opinion on the impact of the shortage of fertilizers in Peruvian agriculture
For Javier Escobal, Senior Researcher at GRADE, subsistence farmers, among whom the use of fertilizers is widespread, are particularly vulnerable to the increase in the price of these inputs, since they cannot transfer the higher cost to consumers. In addition, since they would have to buy the food that they would stop producing, they would […]
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Effect of the agrarian labor regime on the remuneration of unskilled workers and workers, by Eduardo Zegarra
“The extreme flexibility of the contracts (temporary terms), as well as the very low capacity for unionization and collective bargaining of wages, mean much lower incomes for workers than those they could receive if they enjoyed the same rights as their peers in the regime. general or civil construction regime”. We share the article by […]
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A system with a 150 years setback, by Hugo Ñopo
“If the rights to health and pensions go from being labor rights to human rights, their financing must expand in the same direction.” In his new weekly article for Jugo de Caigua, our Senior Researcher Hugo Ñopo writes about the paradigm shift required by the labor market in Peru.
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Verónica Villarán: “Sixth grade girls and boys are not ready to reach the first grade of secondary school next year”
“You feel like sixth grade girls and boys are not ready to go to first grade of secondary school next year.” Verónica Villarán, coordinator of the project Growing with the Multigrade Rural Schools of Peru (CREER) an Adjunct Researcher at GRADE, spoke with Noticias SER about the return of students to face-to-face classes in rural areas […]
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Eduardo Zegarra in Peru 21: risks that could aggravate the food crisis
According to Eduardo Zegarra, Senior Researcher at GRADE, we are already in a food crisis due to rising food prices, but this could worsen due to the shortage of fertilizers: “Family farming supplies 60% of food and having two important sources of food – which are imported products and those produced (in Peru) – at risk, […]
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Labor Day: How to reduce job insecurity in Peru?
Forced labor is not only labor without a contract. There has to be the exercise of violence against these people, so that they can effectively do the job. They have mobility restrictions. They can be locked up in a certain area. In general, there is a set of actions that subvert their individual freedom”. Miguel […]
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Peruvian labor market: less productive, less equitable and more precarious, by Miguel Jaramillo
“We have a less productive, more inequitable labor market –with a greater gap between formal and informal– and more precarious. Today this market has less access to social benefits and the protection of the law.” In his new op-ed for Forbes Peru, our Senior Researcher Miguel Jaramillo reviews how Peru’s response to the pandemic and current labor […]
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More noise than nuts in the labor tree, by Hugo Ñopo
“It is difficult to make precise estimates of the expected impacts of the new Labor Code, but I dare to anticipate that they will not be very large. As happened with the VAT reduction regulations that were recently passed, there is more noise here than nuts. This is very bad news, because we will continue […]
