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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 […]
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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 […]
