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Hugo Ñopo gives his thoughts about the Ministry of Economy and Finance plan to boost competitiveness in Peru
According to Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, the Ministry of Economy and Finance plan to boost Peru’s competitiveness must be reshaped, give that it revolves around a concept that is not solid defined. Thus, the focus of economic policies must rest on the promotion of productivity.
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How to protect the national production of rice and corn against imports? Eduardo Zegarra shares his thoughts
How to protect the national production of rice and corn against imports? Regarding the Government’s recent action facing the demand of small producers to prohibit the importation of rice, our senior researcher Eduardo Zegarra recommends for both products to negotiate with the agro-industry, in such a way that the tariffs are lowered, but under the […]
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Ricardo Fort gives his thoughts on the challenges of small-scale agriculture
How to advance in the challenges of small-scale agriculture? Our senior researcher, Ricardo Fort, gives his thoughts in La República newspaper: “The development of the agro-export sector is beneficial, but it could be more if we built cooperative platforms between all the sectors from the State that allow an apprenticeship of what the agro-export sector has already advanced and transmit […]
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Eduardo Zegarra: the Agrarian Law did not mean a significant advance in the reduction of poverty
According to our senior researcher, Eduardo Zegarra, the Agrarian Law does not contribute significantly to the reduction of poverty in coastal areas of Peru. He said in La República: “There is no evidence that conditions in agro-export areas have improved more than in others that do not have the activity.” He also said that the special […]
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Miguel Jaramillo: Constitutional Court reduced the probability of having an indefinite employment contract by 57%
The magazine SEMANAeconómica highlights the study of our executive director, Miguel Jaramillo, who finds a relationship between a judgment issued by the Constitutional Court that allows reinstatement in a job and the reduction in the probability that a worker has a contract for an indefinite period and the fall of unionization. Miguel discussed his findings […]
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Hugo Ñopo gives his thoughts on the challenges of the public budget for the development of the education sector
“Today we spend 3.7% of GDP on education. Moving from 3.7% to 6% is impossible in the medium term. So, first we have to sincere the goal.” Our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo, gave his thoughts on the relevance of setting a feasible, verifiable and monitorable route for the population to promote the development of education […]
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Poverty rises in Peru for the first time in 10 years: why did it happen?
Why did monetary poverty grow in Peru for the first time in 10 years? Our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo, said in CNN that there are two main factors: the Peruvian economy has stopped growing as before and the changes in social policy. He explained that “if we grow less, there is higher unemployment, less money for […]
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Poverty in Peru rises for the first time in this millenium
Monetary poverty rose one point in 2017 -the first increase of this millennium- according to the National Household Survey of the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics of Peru. Regarding these results, our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo, warns that now we are a country with more urban poor than rural poor, a new challenge for policy […]
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Metropolitan Lima does not see employment growth since May 2017
Formal employment in urban areas of Peru fell 0.5% in February, accumulating eight consecutive months of decline, according to the Ministry of Labor and Promotion of Employment. In addition, there have been 14 months in which formal employment in Metropolitan Lima observed a fall. According to our senior researcher, Miguel Jaramillo, “although economic activity is not […]
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The Peruvian laboral clutter
The Compendium of Standards on Labor Legislation of the Ministry of Labor, updated to August 2017, has 136 standards compiled in almost 1,400 pages and more than 2,000 articles. In an article by El Comercio on the complexity of labor legislation. For our senior researcher, Miguel Jaramillo, it is not reasonable to expect a small […]
