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GRADE’s researchers are winners at 20th CIES Annual Research Contest
We congratulate our senior researchers Alan Sánchez and Eduardo Zegarra, and our research assistant Walter Noel, whose research proposals were winners in the 20th CIES Annual Research Contest, and initiative of the Consortium for Economic and Social Research. Proposals are: Medium projects: Skills, job training and youth employment: a life cycle approach, by Alan Sánchez. Agro-export boom and diversification in Peru: analyzing the survival […]
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How to protect the national production of rice and corn against imports? Eduardo Zegarra shares his thoughts
How to protect the national production of rice and corn against imports? Regarding the Government’s recent action facing the demand of small producers to prohibit the importation of rice, our senior researcher Eduardo Zegarra recommends for both products to negotiate with the agro-industry, in such a way that the tariffs are lowered, but under the […]
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Ricardo Fort gives his thoughts on the challenges of small-scale agriculture
How to advance in the challenges of small-scale agriculture? Our senior researcher, Ricardo Fort, gives his thoughts in La República newspaper: “The development of the agro-export sector is beneficial, but it could be more if we built cooperative platforms between all the sectors from the State that allow an apprenticeship of what the agro-export sector has already advanced and transmit […]
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GRADE and IDB held the launch of the book “Profession: Teacher in Latin America”
GRADE and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) held the launch of the IDB new book “Profession: Teacher in Latin America: Why was teacher prestige lost and how to recover it?”. The book analyzes the policies and good practices that Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru carry out to attract, train and select effective teachers. “The duty […]
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María Balarin discussed the situation of educational policies in Peru at CIUP conference
Our senior researcher, María Balarin, joined the conference “The challenges of development in Peru”, held by the Research Center of the Universidad del Pacífico on Monday 9 and Tuesday 10, July. María discussed the situation of educational policies in the country. You can watch the video of her speech, with a click on the following image:
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GRADE’s new Research Paper addresses the private educational market in Peru
Towards a comprehensive understanding of the functioning of the private educational market, GRADE releases its new Research Paper, “Private market, public consequences. Private provision services in Peru”, by María Balarin, Jostin Kitmang, Hugo Ñopo and María Fernanda Rodríguez. Through a mixed methodology, the study analyzes the recent trajectory of the educational market and its regulation […]
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María Balarin has been appointed as visiting fellow at University of Bath Institute for Policy Research
We congratulate our senior researcher, María Balarin, as she will spend three months researching as a visiting fellow at University of Bath Institute for Policy Research.
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How does anaemia affect the national economy?
How does anaemia affect the national economy? With regard to the recent numbers from the Demographic and Health Survey (ENDES) 2017, El Comercio highlights the findings of Lorena Alcázar on the economic impact of anaemia in Peru. The main finding of our researcher is that the prevalence of this disease costs Peruvian society approximately S […]
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Countryman’s Day: Eduardo Zegarra gives his thoughts on the state of little agriculture in Peru
On the sidelines of the Countryman’s Day, our senior researcher, Eduardo Zegarra, give his thoughts in Agraria.pe on the state of small agriculture. He thinks that the Law for the Agrarian Promotion must homologate its labor regime with the general regime, in such a way that “the agricultural workers have guaranteed all they corresponding rights”. […]
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Stories about children. Oswaldo Molina writes about the 15 years of Young Lives Peru
What is it like to be a poor child in Peru? Oswaldo Molina, director of the Master’s in Economics at Universidad del Pacífico, writes in El Comercio about the findings of Young Lives Peru during 15 years of research. Although, in general terms, the study shows that the welfare of families has improved in these […]
