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Santiago Cueto is one of the 2017 PUCP Research Prize winners
Our Research Director, Santiago Cueto, is one of the 2017 Research Prize winners, awarded by the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) to its regular and contracted professors who have high quality academic publications, as a result of a research and that generate new knowledge. The criteria for this recognition were established by consensus between the Academic Departments and […]
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Eduardo Zegarra explains the Agrarian Law, its benefits and the problems of its special labor regime
What is the Law for the Promotion of the Agrarian Sector or Agrarian Law? What worked and what did not? Eduardo Zegarra, senior researcher at GRADE, explained in Ideeleradio its benefits and problems for which, he thinks, it must be reformed: “The labor regime of the law can not remain as the special one. The fundamental labor […]
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Eduardo Zegarra: the Agrarian Law did not mean a significant advance in the reduction of poverty
According to our senior researcher, Eduardo Zegarra, the Agrarian Law does not contribute significantly to the reduction of poverty in coastal areas of Peru. He said in La República: “There is no evidence that conditions in agro-export areas have improved more than in others that do not have the activity.” He also said that the special […]
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Opportunities for poor youth in Peru
Our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo, synthesizes the findings of his study, together with Ana Paula Franco, about the opportunities for poor young people in Peru: “Regarding employment, the news are discouraging in multiple dimensions: young people, in comparison to the adult population, show lower labor participation, higher unemployment, higher underemployment and more informality. In the education […]
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Hugo Ñopo: The socio-emotional skills of the Peruvian soccer team
With the right encourage, people can learn to move from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset, which leads to improvements in achievement. Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, gathers recent advances in psychology and behavioral economics to analyze the socio-emotional skills developed by the Peruvian soccer team. The article was published in El Comercio’s […]
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Young Lives Peru releases a summary of is findings on the drivers and impacts of childhood poverty in Peru
The longitudinal study Young Lives Peru has published a summary of the findings of five rounds of surveys applied to children and their families —in the years 2002, 2006, 2009, 2013 and 2016—. These findings provide a broad overview of some indicators of child poverty, and account for changes in the lives of children and youth during […]
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Miguel Jaramillo: Constitutional Court reduced the probability of having an indefinite employment contract by 57%
The magazine SEMANAeconómica highlights the study of our executive director, Miguel Jaramillo, who finds a relationship between a judgment issued by the Constitutional Court that allows reinstatement in a job and the reduction in the probability that a worker has a contract for an indefinite period and the fall of unionization. Miguel discussed his findings […]
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Miguel Jaramillo shared in Ideeleradio conclusions of GRADE’s Territories and Development International Conference
Miguel Jaramillo, executive director at GRADE, spoke with Glatzer Tuesta, host of No hay derecho (Not fair) of Ideeleradio, on the regulation of the labor market in Peru, and shared some conclusions of our Territories and Development International Conference, held last week. Miguel spoke about the need for policies for the rural sector to respond to a […]
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Ricardo Fort joined the 5th CIES Presidential Academic Dialogue on the reconstruction of the north of Peru
Our senior researcher Ricardo Fort was one of the nine experts who offered recommendations for the reconstruction of the north of the country, as part of the 5th Presidential Academic Dialogue held on Tuesday, June 12 by the Consortium for the Economic and Social Research (CIES). The event was headed by the President of the Republic, […]
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Hugo Ñopo gives his thoughts on the challenges of the public budget for the development of the education sector
“Today we spend 3.7% of GDP on education. Moving from 3.7% to 6% is impossible in the medium term. So, first we have to sincere the goal.” Our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo, gave his thoughts on the relevance of setting a feasible, verifiable and monitorable route for the population to promote the development of education […]
