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CALL FOR PAPERS: 2017 Annual Congress of the Peruvian Economic Association
The Peruvian Economic Association (PEA) invites to submit papers for its 2017 Annual Congress, hosted by the Universidad de Lima and the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE) on August 11th-12th, at the Universidad de Lima campus. The papers (in English or Spanish) must be submitted until May 31, in PDF format to the following email […]
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Lights, shadows and pendings issues in education, by Santiago Cueto
“The ECE have contributed to set the learnings at the center of educational concerns”, stated Santiago Cueto, Research Director at GRADE, Country Coordinator of Young Lives in Peru and member of the Consejo Nacional de Educación, in El Comercio, on the sidelines of the 2016 national censal assessment of student performance (Evaluación Censal de Estudiantes or ECE in Spanish).
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The contribution of GRADE and a terrible Niño, by Gustavo Yamada (Universidad del Pacífico)
Gustavo Yamada, Director at the Universidad del Pacífico Research Center, highlights in El Comercio the book published for our 35 years of foundation, “Investigación para el desarrollo en el Perú: once balances” (Research for development in Peru: eleven research reviews): “It is worth reading it. Javier Escobal states that one of the book’s recurring messages is […]
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It turns out that our social capital was better than we thought!
Why in Peru do we see a social capital in action that is not consistent with international statictics in Peru? Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, discussed in Foco Económico on the country’s low social capital in international measurements, in contrast to the solidarity of thousand of Peruvians during the national disaster as a consequence of the coastal […]
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More than 57% of public works in vulnerable areas of Lima is not priority
The newspaper Gestión gathers the findings of our researchers Álvaro Espinoza and Ricardo Fort about the quality of public investment without territorial planning in vulnerable urban settlements of Lima. They found that around half of the public investment in highly vulnerable settlements is for public works of low priority and impact. This due to the investment that […]
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Water is not the problem, it is us, by Eduardo Zegarra
Eduardo Zegarra, senior researcher at GRADE, proposes in Ojo Público to raise the National Water Authority (ANA) to a status similar to that of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru: “Without a strong authority at the central level, and without real water authorities, what remains is a weak eggshell and hesitant of state officials who have no […]
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Half of the investment in vulnerable neighbourhoods goes to low quality projects
El diario La República destaca los hallazgos del estudio de Álvaro Espinoza y Ricardo Fort sobre la calidad de la inversión pública urbana sin planificación territorial. Los autores identificaron que casi la mitad de la inversión destinada a la infraestructura en barrios vulnerables de Lima se destina a obras de baja prioridad, dejando de lado […]
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A web of digital journalism highlighted the participation of Hugo Ñopo at the Why poverty and inequality persist in Mexico? International Forum
The Mexican web of digital journalism Sin embargo (However) highlighted the participation of Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, at the Why poverty and inequality persist in Mexico? International Forum, held by Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, on March 28 and 29, 2017. Hugo was part of the panel on international experiences in the reduction of poverty and inequality. In the […]
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The cost of cheap water. An IPE article highlights Eduardo Zegarra’s opinion
The Peruvian Institute of Economics (IPE) gathers, on El Comercio newspaper, the recommendations of our senior researcher, Eduardo Zegarra, to identify adequate water tariffs that guarantee its supply and efficient human consumption. According to Zegarra, “agricultural tariffs should multiply 3.5 times to cover the costs of operation and mainteance”. In the case of Sedapal, “the average tariff in […]
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Se discutieron estrategias de apoyo a la pequeña agricultura peruana, en conversatorio de AGRORURAL, GRADE y el Banco Mundial
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