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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 […]
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Labour day: Miguel Jaramillo shares his thoughts on the state of the labour market in Peru
“I would not say that the employment has improved, but it has worsened in relation to pre-pandemic. Underemployment grew by more than 50%, the participation of young people in the labour market has fallen sharply and incomes have barely been able to keep up with inflation, thanks to the formal sector”. Our Senior Researcher Miguel Jaramillo and other experts share […]
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Eduardo Zegarra: Urban-rural relations in Latin America
“For me, the most serious aspect of rural depression is that it expels young people and decapitalizes the rural producers’ sector and makes it unviable. While we can say that the urban-rural relationship has increased, the assymetries and disadvantages for rural dwellers have also increased”. Our senior researcher Eduardo Zegarra shares his thoughts on the evolution […]
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Earth Day: a selection of our recent 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 Earth 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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Liliana Miranda shares her thoughts on the law for the return of non-evaluated teachers to the public teaching career
“It is incredible how a system with so many challenges, instead of strenghtening schools, what we are doing is going backwards”. Liliana Miranda, Adjunct Researcher at GRADE, shares her thoughts in El Comercio on the recent regulation that allows dismissed teachers to enter to the teaching career without being evaluated.
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Miguel Jaramillo discusses on the regulation that allows the entry of retired interim teachers into the teaching profession
For Miguel Jaramillo, the regulation that allows the entry of interim teachers retired from the teaching service would be unconstitutional because it does not respect the concept of not submitting spending initiatives. The opinion of our senior researcher was reported by El Comercio.
