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The authorities change, the challenges continue, by Hugo Ñopo
“It is important to maintain the prohibition of creating new universities. We do not need, we need better”. Regarding the recent change of authority in the National Supervisory Authority for Higher Education (Sunedu), our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo, writes in El Comercio about the pending policy challenges to improve the Peruvian university system.
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Should the minimum wage be raised?
Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, discussed in Altavoz President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski’s pronunciation on the minimum vital remuneration. According to Hugo, the minimum wage is a type of price control that distorts economies. In addition, given that 49% of workers receive wages below the minimum, “What will be the compliance of the regulation on minimum wages?”. […]
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Citizen participation could improve fiscal policy
After the 2017 Open Budget Survey publication, which revealed Peru as one of the most transparent countries on the allocation and execution of the public budget, but lagging behind in citizen participation in budgetary decisions, El Comercio highlighted the study of our senior reseacher, Miguel Jaramillo, along with Glenn Wright, who find that voluntary participatory […]
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Eduardo Zegarra shares his thoughts on the issues surrounding the strike of potato producers in Ideeleradio
“For more than two decades, there has been an absolute abandonment of family farming in Peru,” said Eduardo Zegarra in Ideeleradio about the strike of potato producers. Our senior researcher also explained that the challenges of potato cultivation can only be faced with strong and well-structured policies, such as a sowing information and management system […]
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Tacna: Álvaro Espinoza participó en congreso mundial sobre políticas publicas y mejores prácticas de buen gobierno
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Hugo Ñopo discusses the bill that aims to prohibit state advertising in private media
Regarding the debate on the project of Congressman Mauricio Mulder which aims to prohibit state advertising in private media limiting it only to the public media and the Internet, Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, shares his thoughts in El Comercio. According to Hugo, in certain locations of Peru, local media are the most effective means to […]
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GRADE among the most influential social policy think tanks worldwide, according to University of Pennsylvania
For the eighth consecutive year, GRADE has been distinguished among the Top Social Policy Think Tanks in the world —29th place—, according to 2017 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report. This study, conducted by the Think Tanks and Civil Society Program at the University of Pennsylvania, classified 7815 organizations around the world in global and regional lists and by […]
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Minister of Labor discusses Miguel Jaramillo’s findings on the effects of the 2001 labor contract reform on workers
In an interview by Jaime de Althaus for El Comercio, the Minister of Labor, Javier Barreda, discusses the findings of a study undertook by our senior researcher, Miguel Jaramillo, which finds a “correlation between a ruling of the Constitutional Court that allows the replacement in a job position (absolute stability) and the substantial increase in fixed-term contracts and […]
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Miguel Jaramillo explains the effects of Venezuelan migration over employment and incomes in Peru
What is the effect of the arrival of Venezuelan migrants in our country’s employment and income? Our senior researcher, Miguel Jaramillo, said in Radio Programas del Perú that the impact is minimal and in very specific sectors: “In some cases it could provide additional labor in some sectors where it is needed and in other cases […]
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Eduardo Zegarra gives his thoughts about the subsidy requested to Minagri for the potato growers that sow at height
Regarding the subsidy requested to the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation of Peru for the potato growers that sow more than 3000 meters high, our senior researcher, Eduardo Zegarra, said in La República that this subsidy should be channeled through a service platform of support to the farmer: “It would make a strong job of […]
