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Escobal and Herrera: Decree that Goverment wants to aprove puts statistical system under threat, why?
“By transferring INEI’s own functions to Midis, the Supreme Decree proposed by the Government is a threat to the credibility of non-monetary poverty indicators”. Javier Escobal, Senior Researcher at GRADE, and Javier Herrera, Visiting Professor at PUCP, both members of the Consultative Commission on Poverty Measurment. write about the implications of a proposed Supreme Decree that questions the […]
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Off days: Second jobs and informality in Peru, by Miguel Jaramillo
“From the perspective of our regulation, the high rate of second jobs is paradoxical, given the preference for the full-time contract over indefinite time, which leads our jurisconsultants to consider fixed-term labor contracts as “atypical”, when in reality it is the most frequent form of contracting”. Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, writes about second jobs […]
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Carmela Chávez on the permanent licensing of universities: “Today we no longer have the guarantee of having basic quality conditions”
“We are facing a much bigger issue that has to do with the sustainability of the university system. Universities are being created without any kind of control. When the time comes for licensing, who ensures that they obtain licenses with basic conditions that no one is going to reevaluate?”. Carmela Chávez, Associated Researcher at GRADE, […]
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Manuel Glave and the Ministry of Infrastructure: “A reform of the State cannot be achieved merely by merging 13 entities”
“A reform of the State cannot be achieved merely by merging 13 entities. […] In fact, a comprehensive State reform is needed that addresses differentiated changes in each sector”. Our Senior Researcher Manuel Glave talked to AméricaEconomía magazine about the risks of creating an Ministry of Infrastructure in Peru.
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Eduardo Zegarra is an expert member of the Multidisciplinary Committee on Water Stress convened by CEPLAN
The National Center for Strategic Planning (CEPLAN) formalized the creation of the Multidisciplinary Commitee on Water Stress, with the aim of making strategic proposals to guarantee the availabilty, quality and sustainability of water resources. Among its main actions are the prioritization of strategic proposals in the integrated management of water resources, the identification of relevant issues at […]
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The urgency of critical pedagogies to transform reality, by Maria Fernanda Rodriguez
“It is in the incorporation of reality into school knowledge where the potential for the transformation of reality itself is found”. Our Adjunct Researcher María Fernanda Rodríguez collects the findings of the JustEd Educational Justice project to discuss the concept of shallow pedagogies as a form of epistemic injustice in Peru. Read the article in […]
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Eduardo Zegarra in the regional newspaper El Búho: the Peruvian agriculture situation
“We have a technological challenge to develop better food. Peru produces high quality food. Our family farming has the capacity to produce quite nutritious food, but its productivity is low. In many cases, producers have to take refuge in low value-added products and low income generation. We have to break this trap of low productivity […]
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Carmela Chávez discusses the results in creative thinking according to PISA 2022
“Improving learning processes is not a job that can fall exclusively on teachers, this development has to do with training processes both from the strengthening of the national curriculum, the investment of educational resources and above all the need to understand education as a process of training people”. Carmela Chávez, Associated Researcher at GRADE, shared […]
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Goodbye demographic bonus: the sudden aging of the Peruvian labor market, by Miguel Jaramillo
“The size of the drop in labor supply is similar to that of the drop in youth employment. Thus, the propensity to hire young people has not changed, but the supply of young people in the labor market has fallen. The causes of this lie in the conjuncture, not in some structural factor.” Our senior […]
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GRADE Conversa podcast EP 23. Ed-Tech in the Global South, featuring Santiago Cueto, María Balarin and Mauricio Saavedra
How can Ed-Tech help to advance learning and reduce inequalities in education in the developing world? In recent decades, Ed-Tech has received increasing attention on global and local policy agendas. In fact, the arrival of the pandemic accelerated its incorporation in order to address issues of access, quality and management of education systems. In this new GRADE […]
