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Miguel Jaramillo in El Comercio: Young people face informality and unemployment in the labor market
“The probability that a young person reachs a formal job is only 15%, which means that more than 80% of young people have an informal job.” Regarding the recent figures published by the National Institute of Statistics and Information (INEI) for the national urban area, Miguel Jaramillo, senior researcher at GRADE, spoke with El Comercio about the […]
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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 […]
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GRADE congratulates Francisco Sagasti who has been appointed as President of Peru
GRADE congratulates Francisco Sagasti, one of its founders, who has been appointed by the Congress to become President of Peru until July 2021. We wish him a successful leadership, which allows his government to solve the great challenges that the country faces at this time, and puts us on the right foot to that better […]
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Hugo Ñopo in The New York Times: “Peru’s Congress has become a ‘a Molotov cocktail’, built on unstable ingredients mixed together from years of misguided policy”
“Peru’s Congress has become a ‘a Molotov cocktail’, built on unstable ingredients mixed together from years of misguided policy”, said Hugo Ñopo in The New York Times. According to our senior researcher, these ingredients are three. The first ingredient was a weak and fragmented party system that encouraged politicians to shift alliances to suit their […]
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Miguel Jaramillo: “In 2022 we would only see figures similar to the pre-COVID-19 stage, in terms of per capita income, or total income”
“In 2022 we would only see figures similar to the pre-COVID-19 stage, in terms of per capita income, or total income. People will look for employment and if they cannot find it, employment will be created due to the flexibility of the sector. informal”. Our researcher Miguel Jaramillo spoke with the Lima Chamber of Commerce […]
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Eduardo Zegarra in Ideeleradio: “Among Peruvian farmers there is a feeling of helplessness”
“In the farmers there is a feeling of helplessness. As a result of the agricultural strike and some negotiating tables, this Government told them that it was going to start making policies in favor of family farming: propose a new Ministry of Agriculture with a vice-ministry of family farming, financing the National Family Farming Plan, […]
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Patricia Arregui has been appointed as CNE vice president for the period 2020-2023
Patricia Arregui, senior researcher at GRADE and member of the project Growing with the Rural Multigrade Schools in Peru (CREER), was appointed as vice president of the National Council of Education (CNE) for the period 2020-2023. Along with Patricia, the other members of the Board of Directors are: María Amelia Palacios, as president, and Grimaldo Rengifo, Sandro […]
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Come On, Guys: It’s Time Men Got More Involved at Home, by Hugo Ñopo
“One of the biggest hurdles women face when it comes to professional opportunities lies at home. We — husbands, fathers, sons and brothers — are largely responsible for the inequality that stems from our own behavior in the household. And we do this to the people we love!”. Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, writes in Americas Quaterly […]
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Young, rural and low-income women lost more their jobs during the pandemic
“The research calculated that 34% of female heads of households lost their jobs compared to 28% of their male counterparts, as this problem is much more profound in Peru, El Salvador, Honduras and Bolivia. More than half of the women female heads of households who are in charge of children under 6 have seen their […]
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When the “good” neighborhoods ruin the “bad” ones, by Wilson Hernández
“When an adolescent lives in a vulnerable neighborhood, his propensity to commit a crime is greater when there are people with less vulnerability in the surroundings neighborhoods. But, according to the aforementioned study, this is not the case when the surroundings neighborhoods are also vulnerable”. Our adjunct researcher Wilson Hernández highlighted the findings of a […]
