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Ricardo Fort in El Espectador: Why did Peru become the second country with the most cases of COVID-19 in Latin America?
Why is Peru the second country with the most cases of COVID-19 in Latin America? According to Ricardo Fort, crowds in the food markets were one of the key reasons. “In addition, people who visited these places returned to households with high levels of overcrowding and with a strong presence of seniors,” explained GRADE’s senior researcher, […]
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From the pandemics to food crisis in Peru, by Eduardo Zegarra, via Ojo Público
In May, 14% of households in Lima and Callao could not buy protein foods such as meat, fish and eggs due to lack of money. At the national level, in all urban Peru the number rises to 3.5 million people; not counting the rural areas, hard hit. With the high number of contagions in the […]
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A talk between Hugo Ñopo and Elmer Huerta M.D. in RPP Noticias: Social determinants of health
“Four out of ten Peruvians work independently. Of those four, three work in a very precarious way due to what they manage to carry out at the end of the month at their household is below the minimum vital wage of 900 soles” . These are some of the figures that Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, shared with […]
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Hugo Ñopo via BBC Mundo: factors that explain why confinement measures do not prevent Peru from being the second country in Latin America with the most cases of COVID-19
Hugo Ñopo is one of the experts who discusses five factors that explain why confinement measures do not prevent Peru from being the second country in Latin America with the most cases of the coronavirus. One of the problems is informality, which prevented the social distance from being maximized: “We are talking about households where monetary income […]
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Hugo Ñopo in The Guardian: Peru’s coronavirus response was ‘right on time’ – so why isn’t it working?
“Our social contract was broken and nobody bothered to fix it. Now it’s exploding in our faces”, said Hugo Ñopo in regard of the historic lack of investment in public institutions that left Peru vulnerable in the face of the pandemic. The opinion of our senior researcher about why Peru’s coronavirus response is not working as […]
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The limits of the state response to COVID-19 in the artisanal fishing sector, by Isabel Gonzales
“It is urgent that the credit be made effective in a timely manner, in order to avoid the depletion of resources, the precariousness of households dependent on artisanal fishing and exposure to contact situations in the midst of the health crisis that has been hitting the sector”. Our assistant researcher, Isabel Gonzales, analyzes the functioning of […]
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Hugo Ñopo in RPP Noticias: challenges of transforming Lima in a more bicycle-friendly city
“Cultural changes are hardly achievable by decree. What we need is to change an organizational culture. A work culture that is more bicycle friendly. It has to be gesticulated by a few and, probably, it will be easier in some sectors “. Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, shared his thoughts in this RPP Noticias article […]
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Miguel Jaramillo and Hugo Ñopo joins the UN group The Economy of the Pandemic and Social Protection in Latin America
Our senior researchers, Miguel Jaramillo and Hugo Ñopo, are part of the group The Economy of the Pandemic and Social Protection in Latin America. The initiative is organized by the Regional Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Ibero-American General Secretariat (SEGIB), the Institute for Commitment to […]
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Coronavirus: An Opportunity to Beat Informality? Interview with Hugo Ñopo
Can Peru aim at development as an informal country? Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, shares his thoughts: “No, and this opportunity of the pandemic has been showing us. It is proving very difficult to reach these households whose employment is basically informal with effective help. It would do us a better job as a country , […]
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The Guardian interviews Eduardo Zegarra about contagions in wholesale markets in Lima
“Markets were probably the biggest vector of infection which is why Peru’s quarantine did not work as it should have”. The Guardian interviews our senior researcher, Eduardo Zegarra, for an article on contagions in wholesale markets in four Latin American cities: Lima, São Paulo, Mexico City and Bogotá.
