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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 […]
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María Balarin: Why is the presence of women so relevant in the production of knowledge?
Why is so relevant the presence of women in the production of knowledge? Due to a lost of talent issue and also because the perspectives are different. Having more women involves different approaches of the same problem, but also allows the identification of new problems. This topic was discussed by María Balarín, senior researcher at GRADE and member of […]
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Manuel Glave talks about the Paris Agreement, the US withdrawal and the pending commitments of Peru
According to our senior researcher, Manuel Glave, the United States withdrawal from the Paris Agreement against climate change, “should not mean Peru and the Andean countries do not continue their duty to set public policies aimed at fulfilling their commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions”. The video was published by Alan Fairlie, Andean Parliamentary Representative.
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Is it feasible to increase the teacher salaries in the public sector? Hugo Ñopo shares his thoughts
Raising teacher salaries requires adding between 1 and 2 extra percentage points of GDP to 3.8% of the state budget currently allocated to education sector. This is the thought of Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, gathered by El Comercio. Hugo also pointed out that these salary increases should be linked to evaluation results in order […]
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A radiography of informality. El Comercio highlighted Miguel Jaramillo’s study on the demand for formality among microfirms
The Peruvian Institute of Economics (IPE) published an article on the evidence around informality. For this, gathers our Executive Director Miguel Jaramillo’s findings on the demand for formality among microfirms in Downtown Lima, Is there demand for formality among informal firms? Evidence from microfirms in downtown Lima (GRADE 2013): “The study reports that only one out of […]
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Jaime de Althaus highlights Miguel Jaramillo’s study of 2004 on the regulation of labor market in Peru
In his op-ed titled “Overregulation is not ideological”, journalist Jaime de Althaus highlights one of Miguel Jaramillo’s findings of 2004 on the regulation of labor market in Peru: “There is the myth that in the 90’s labor was desregulated and therefore precarious and informalized. But the truth is that non-wage labor costs (“benefits”) went from 48% […]
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Through screenshots, I learned
Despite the progress of technological modernization in the classroom, “[…] human essence, critical thinking and feelings will not dissapear”, said Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, in an article published by Somos magazine. According to Hugo, in addition, a key challenge in this scenario will be to improve the quality of teachers so that they “creatively face with multigrade teaching, diversity and bullying, […]
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Legislation for gender equity: when good intentions are not enough
For helping improve the design of policies that promote gender equity in employment, our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo, analyzes the problems of two recently approved law projects. The article was published by the blog Foco Económico.
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Patricia del Río’s op-ed highlights Lorena Alcázar’s study on the economic impact of anaemia in Peru
Journalist Patricia del Río warned about anaemia numbers reported by the 2016 Encuesta Demográfica y de Salud Familiar (Demographic and Family Health Survey): “More than 40% of children under 3 years have anaemia”, and highlighted the main finding of Lorena Alcázar’s study on the economic impact of this disease in the country: the cost of anaemia for Peruvian society reached approximately S/2.777 […]
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Peru: If You Think You Can Get Smarter, You Will
Get a closer look at the evidence on the impact of “Expand your Mind”, a low-cost and short-term innovation conducted by researchers Ingo Outes from University of Oxford, Alan Sánchez from the Group for the Analysis of Development, and Renos Vakis from the World Bank, with the aim to conveying to students the idea that intelligence can grow […]
