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Peru: Has the law known as ‘environmental package’ fulfilled its purposes?
What have been the impacts of the Law 30230, known as ‘environmental package’? Our senior researcher, Manuel Glave, discusses the effects of this law promulgated in 2014, whose purpose was to adjust the national environmental control to foster private investment. The article has been published in Mongabay Latam.
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GRADE among the most influential social policy think tanks worldwide, according to University of Pennsylvania
For the seventh consecutive year, GRADE has been distinguished among the Top Social Policy Think Tanks in the world —25th place—, according to 2016 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report. This study, conducted by the Think Tanks and Civil Society Program at the University of Pennsylvania, classified 6846 organizations around the world in global […]
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Why regulate the educational services market? 11 reasons
How to regulate the market for educational services? To answer this question, Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, address 11 arguments in Foco Económico blog to explain in which way this particular market differs from the free competition model.
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Faces of Reform: Miguel Jaramillo joins the Social Protection Commitee
The Ministry of Economy and Finance of Peru released its Social Protection Commitee, whose main function is to offer recommendations to improve the coverage and quality of social protection services (pension, health and unemployment), under a tax sustainability and formalization-drive framework. Our executive director, Miguel Jaramillo, is one of the five external independent experts appointed for this […]
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María Balarin discusses on the unique university model promoted by the university reform law
“The (university) law takes over a homogeneus model of university, for which all institutions are aim to do the same”. María Balarín, senior researcher at GRADE, discussed on the challenges to university reform, including setting up a unique model. In this sense, Balarín argued that, with the massification of higher education, “there are relevant processes of institutional differentiation, […]
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Hugo Ñopo talked about Peru’s progress in PISA 2015: “We are the Latin America country which has improve the most “
Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, talked about Peru’s progress in PISA 2015: “We are the Latin American country which has improve the most in math, science and reading comprehension. Besides, between 2012 and 2015, we have grown more than we have previously grown”. The media report was released on Wednesday, December 7, in a […]
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Hugo Ñopo discussed the challenges of education reform regarding PISA 2015 results for Peru
“The status of the teaching career has to change. The (education) reform will have taken effect when we are able to attract the most talented young people to pedagogy”. Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, discussed the challenges of education reform regarding the results of PISA 2015 for Peru. Hugo gave this interview in a local news channel […]
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Hugo Ñopo on PISA 2015 results for Peru: “There is still pending work in urban-rural gap”
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Interview with Hugo Ñopo: “It is hard for a profit-making university to provide better quality of education”
In an interview with Ojo Público, a investigative journalism web, our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo, explains the profit-making issue in Peruvian education and the lack of public access to information on tax benefits for private education,
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Our biased perceptions, by Hugo Ñopo
“How many women do you think are in CADE 2016? Please give me a percentage”, asked Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, to several attendants. In his article, Ñopo discusses the findings of a small social experiment on female participation at the event.
