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Six in 10 private schools are low-cost and mostly of subsistence
What is the situation of private education in Peru? The newspaper Gestión highlighted some of the topics discussed in the presentation of the study by our senior researchers, María Balarin and Hugo Ñopo, on the functioning of the market of educational services in our country [Video and wrap-up of the presentation here].
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Political analyst José Carlos Requena highlights a study by Juan José Díaz and Hugo Ñopo on the teaching career in Peru
Political analyst José Carlos Requena highlights the study of our senior researchers Juan José Díaz and Hugo Ñopo on the teaching career in Peru, which is part of the book for our 35th anniversary: “We believe that a fundamental incentive for the career is to increase its prestige and for this, it is a priority to improve the salaries of teachers”. […]
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Alfredo Torres’s op-ed highlights data by Hugo Ñopo on teacher salaries
The Executive Chairman at IPSOS Perú, Alfredo Torres, highlights data on teacher salaries, published by our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo in Twitter: “No one argues that teacher salaries should improve, but the they are also improving. According to calculations by Hugo Ñopo, researcher at GRADE, their salaries at constant prices are now less than half that in the 1960s, but also […]
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The political analyst Fernando Rospligiosi highlights data by Hugo Ñopo on the evolution of teacher salaries
The political analyst Fernando Rospigliosi gathers data by our senior researcher Hugo Ñopo on teacher salaries between 1950 and 2016, to explain the decline of salary in this sector, on the sidelines of the teacher strike: “According to data from Hugo Ñopo and GRADE, the average salary of teachers at their best, in the first government of Fernando Belaunde, was […]
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Hugo Ñopo shares his thoughts on the drivers behind the teacher’s strike
According to our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo, the teacher’s strike shows a process of decentralization that has been halfway addressed in Peru: “We are in the worst of two worlds. There are certain decentralized duties, but not enough, and when a coordinated decision is needed, this become impossible”. The article is from El Comercio.
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What should a firm do to advance in gender equity? Hugo Ñopo shares his thoughts
“It is wrong to say that gender equity only benefits women. It benefits the whole economy, due for a country means greater productivity and labor placement, which can increase the growth of GDP by two points” , said our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo, based on the results of a ranking on gender equity in Peruvian […]
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Álvaro Espinoza: “In Lima almost all the flood damage was caused by the illegal occupation of land”
“In Lima almost all the flood damage was caused by the illegal occupation of land”, said our Adjunct Researcher, Álvaro Espinoza, in an article published by the British newspaper The Guardian on the latest natural disasters and the high risk of housing building in vulnerable areas of our capital city.
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Manuel Glave shares his thoughts on genetic resources, patents and genetic biopiracy
Our senior researcher, Manuel Glave, gives his thoughts on genetic resources and their economic exploitation: “The countries of the Andean Community are called to lead a new negotiation that guarantees the paradigm of access to benefits and share them equitably, with innovative mechanisms. The patent model fails to incorporate the collective rights of the ethnic groups that […]
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María Balarin: “We found a plain scenario of underrepresentation of women in the academic and research fields”
If women produce as much as their male peers, why do they earn and scale less? In the blog Saber es Poder (Knowledge is Power) of La Mula, María Balarin, senior researcher at GRADE and member of Grupo Sofía, talks with Enrique Mendizábal, founder of On Think Tanks, on the contextual and institutional barriers behind a […]
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Carolina Trivelli recommends GRADE’s 35th Anniversary research reviews
Carolina Trivelli recommends our 35th Anniversary book, “Investigación para el desarrollo en el Perú (Research for Development in Peru)“. In her op-ed published in Perú 21, two research reviews stand out: “Sanchez and Rodriguez discuss the impacts of Juntos, answering several of the demands that demand for more evaluation, and they make clear for what this intervention serves and where there are […]
