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Hugo Ñopo: “Technology is a great tool for education, but a significant space for critical thinking is needed”
“Technology arrived as a great promise for solving our issues in education. Now we begin to undestand is a great tool we need to set up, use and control, but there must be a significant space for critical thinking”. Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, together with other experts, discussed the impact of technology in education, […]
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IDRC governors and GRADE researchers discussed Research, Youth & Gender
On the sidelines of the visit of International Development Research Centre (IDRC / CRDI) governors to GRADE, on August 20 was held a Research, Youth & Gender panel discussion. During the meeting, our senior researchers shared GRADE’s findings from studying these topics.
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Eduardo Zegarra shared research findings on Juntos program at MIDIS-CIES Ministerial Dialogue
Our senior researcher, Eduardo Zegarra, shared the main findings of his study on the effects of Juntos on rural households’ productive decisions in Peru, on Friday, August 26th, as part of the discussion of four studies sponsored by the Consorcio de Investigación Económica y Social (CIES) with policy recommendations for the Peruvian Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion […]
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Hugo Ñopo discusses proposals on education announced by the President of Council of Ministers
“There is no education system which has been enhanced without improving its human capital, in this case, the teachers”, said our senior research Hugo Ñopo, in La Mula, regarding the change of the Magisterial Reform Act, one of the proposals for education sector announced by Fernando Zavala, President of Council of Ministers, during his speech to the Congress plenary on last Thursday […]
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Javier Escobal has been appointed as member of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru board
Through the supreme decrees 194-2016-PCM and 195-2016-PCM, the Presidency of Council of Ministers of Peru (PCM) appointed three members of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru (BCRP) Board, including Javier Escobal, senior researcher at GRADE, together with Luis Palomino and Gustavo Yamada. Besides, through the supreme decree 193-2016-PCM, Julio Velarde was ratified as board chairman. The experts elected join the current board members Eduardo González and Drago Kisic […]
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Javier Escobal and Hugo Ñopo are members of the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion Advisory Committee
Through Supreme Decree Nº 001-2016-MIDIS, the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion (MIDIS) announced the set-up of its Advisory Committee, which purpose is advising and give recommendations on its policies, programs, strategies and plans, as well as promoting the dialogue on development and social inclusion issues between state and society. Our senior researchers Javier Escobal y Hugo Ñopo are […]
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GRADE is one of the fourty Ministry of Education of Peru “Partners for Education”
The Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE), through the Strenghtening Management of the Education Sector in Peru (FORGE in Spanish) project with the financial support of the Government of Canada, is one of the fourty institutions recognized by the Ministry of Education of Peru for its work on behalf of education, in coordination with the sector. The FORGE project “aims to […]
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Manuel Glave on investment incentives and environmental regulations, in the Inter-American Dialogue’s Latin America Advisor
“It is clear that the political challenge is to find an equilibrium point between generating new investment incentives without loosening up environmental regulations that may affect Peruvians’ quality of life in the long run”, stated Manuel Glave, senior researcher at GRADE, in Latin America Advisor, daily publication of the Inter-American Dialogue.
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María Balarin joined GDN webinar on funding for social science research
“In many development countries, the discourses and practices of evidence-based policy-making, as well as the discourses regarding the importance of increasing the production of publishable research do seem to be taken hold, but there is little reflection on the need to develop the capacities of the research community, on what this means and how this […]
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Education: well said, and done!, by Hugo Ñopo
Our senior researcher Hugo Ñopo analyzes the education topic within the presidential speech by Pedro Pablo Kuczynski: “The six state commitments with which the President closed his speech follow up for strengthen an idea. The education, as a tool to build the society we want, has a main place in these commitments. The priority is […]
