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Pandemic and rural employment, by Hugo Ñopo and Daniel Pajita
“To what is already worrying about the drop in employment that has recently spread, it must be added that paid employment has fallen even more. People are shifting to forms of subsistence employment, helping family members in their farms or businesses. the rural economy should be one of the issues to prioritize on the medium-term agenda.” […]
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UNIR, Concytec and GRADE organize the International Online Course on Research Culture
The International University of La Rioja (UNIR), the National Council for Science, Technology and Technological Innovation (Concytec), with the collaboration of GRADE, are organizing a new edition of the International Online Course on Research Culture. The course is aimed at professors from public and private universities, researchers in general, Concytec researchers, research managers, directors of […]
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Miguel Jaramillo’s opinion in Al Jazeera. Peru economy: COVID-19 puts millions of people out of work
“It is the worst recession since the 19th century. The economy shut down completely. In 12 out of 24 regions, there was not a single case of COVID-19. Instead of isolating, the quarantine was also imposed on them, revealing the lack of understanding of the effects of this measure. […] The long-term consequences are enormous: […]
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Miguel Jaramillo in Bloomberg: Peru’s GDP Quarterly Drop
“It’s not so easy for economic activity to return when you’ve had such a brutal drop. Many companies have folded, and they’re going to keep folding. It’s naive to think we’ve touched bottom.” Miguel Jaramillo, senior researcher at GRADE, talked with Bloomberg on Peru’s GDP drop during the second quater due to the pandemic.
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3.5 million people are expected to enter the poverty line due to COVID-19. Hugo Ñopo in Cuarto Poder
“Ten years ago we had poverty levels of about a third, but with poverty that was falling. Now we are going to be in an inverse situation: with the same levels, but with poverty that is increasing.” Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, participated in this Cuarto Poder reportage on the economic and labor precariousness of […]
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Promoting informality, by Alvaro Espinoza
“A really sensible housing policy without consistency in the title of the precarious land, but rather generates alternatives of access to decent housing, or at least to the authorized lots, for the families who have to have in the land traffickers their only option viable”. Our adjunct researcher, Álvaro Espinoza, writes in El Comercio about the […]
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Employment: the three dogmas of the old formality, by Hugo Ñopo
“In Peru, with limited access to capital and poorly developed financial markets, work is even more important. Labor incomes cover three-quarters of the budgets of Peruvian households. Therefore, there is no better welfare policy than promoting a better job market”. Read the new op-ed by Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, in El Comercio.
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Hugo Ñopo shares his thoughts on the Congress’ project to allocate no less than 6% of GDP to education
“Three-quarters of educational spending is teachers ‘salaries. It is nonsense for teachers’ salaries to fluctuate. It is absolutely wrong and it puts incentives quite perverse.” Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, and other experts consulted by El Comercio shared their opinion on the recent reform approved by Congress to modify the constitution and establish that the State […]
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Proposal for the reactivation of family farming, by Eduardo Zegarra
“In the best scenario, agrarian poverty has increased from 40 to 60% in this period, and may reach 80% at the end of the year if concrete and comprehensive measures are not taken to support agriculture.” Eduardo Zegarra, senior researcher at GRADE, shares a proposal for the reactivation of family farming via Noticias SER.
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Miguel Jaramillo’s opinion on figures of formal and informal employment
Regarding the recent figures for formal and informal employment, Miguel Jaramillo stated that a change in the trajectory of formal employment was expected for June. However, he warned that in the coming months there would be a strong increase in informality, these last agents go out to carry out their activities to survive. The opinion […]
