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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 […]
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World Environment Day: a selection of our latest free access publications
Promoting environmentally and socially sustainable management of natural resources is one of the greatest challenges facing the countries of the region and Peru in particular. On World Environment Day, we share some of the published work of our researchers who have focused on analyzing, from territorial and interdisciplinary perspectives, the social, economic and political causes that […]
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Javier Escobal is appointed member of the Fiscal Council
Our senior researcher Javier Escobal has been appointed as a member of the Fiscal Council, for a four-year term. Previously, he was a member of this group between December 2015 and March 2022. According to Supreme Resolution No. 021-2024-EF, his appointment replaces economist and former Minister of Economy Carlos Oliva. The Fiscal Council is an autonomous […]
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Alvaro Espinoza’s opinion: Seven out of every 10 homes in the national urban area are self-built
“It is construction without plans, on the fly, without respecting standards and structural safety. The people who build just repeat what was done in a previous work. There are houses that use even more material than they need because there are no correct calculations either.” Our Adjunct Researcher Alvaro Espinoza shared his opinion in a […]
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Roxana Barrantes, with the collaboration of Javier Escobal, proposes a reform of the INEI. Via Jugo.
“The INEI should perform as a data center for public management and centralize the various entities that currently provide data” The recent op-ed by Roxana Barrantes, senior researcher at IEP, with the collaboration of our senior researcher Javier Escobal, shares a proposal to reform the National Institute of Stadistics and Informatics (INEI) Via Jugo de Caigua. […]
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GRADE is a member of the Global Alliance for Care
It is with enthusiasm that we announce our membership in the Global Alliance for Care, the first global multi-stakeholder community that facilitates and promotes spaces for dialogue, analysis, exchange of experiences and learning about care, recognizing it as a necessity, a job and a right. “We take this opportunity to recognize and congratulate the work that GRADE […]
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Liliana Miranda via Ojo Público: challenges faced by students who lack drinking water service through public network
“Like other [sectors], the education system is affected by inequality. In urban areas, the percentage [of public premises with water, electricity and sewage services] increases to 76%, but, in rural areas, it drops to 17%. Those in the Amazon region have the largest gaps”. Our Adjunct Researcher Liliana Miranda shares her opinion in this Ojo Público’s story on the challenges faced by schools […]
