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Ricardo Fort in 24 Hours: Food markets in Lima as potential sources of COVID-19 contagion
“These are the areas where the authorities should be doing preventive measures, ensuring that the food markets are properly cleaned, that the vendors handle the products well, that there is social distancing. One could even do rapid tests for temperature or virus transmission to prevent it from spreading through those territories. ” Our senior researcher, […]
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Gestión: 235 food markets in Lima are identified as potential sources of COVID-19 contagion
“If people become infected in these areas, the virus will start to run very fast due to the existing conditions. So what is the area with the greatest potential for contagion in that territory? The markets and supermarkets.” Gestión.pe spoke with Ricardo Fort, senior researcher at GRADE, who explained that the research of GRADE’s Urbanization and Sustainable […]
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Ricardo Fort en Ideeleradio: Zonas prioritarias para la prevención y control del contagio del COVID-19 en Lima
“Si pensamos en estas zonas, hay mucha movilidad de gente que sale a diario a tratar trabajar para conseguir ingresos, o incluso a hacer las comprar del diario, regresan a sus hogares donde hay población vulnerable, y se aumenta la posibilidad de contagio”. Ricardo Fort, investigador principal de GRADE, explicó en Ideeleradio el análisis de zonas prioritarias para la […]
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Hugo Ñopo discussed in BBC Peru’s economic strategy to face coronavirus impact
Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, shared his opinion with BBC News World on the opportunities and challenges of Peru’s economic plan to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 crisis. The article explores the rationale behind the package of measures to revive the economy in the country. Savings after three decades of fiscal discipline and the low […]
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Eduardo Zegarra discusses the state of Peruvian agriculture in times of the coronavirus
“We calculate how many have a cell phone to access the voucher and no member of more than 300,000 agricultural families has a cell phone […] They do indeed require resources to be able to even eat, because they do not themselves produce all the food they require for their own food. There is need for […]
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Hugo Ñopo’s opinion in Forbes Colombia: the great challenge of the Peruvian economy amid the coronavirus
Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, and other specialists, give their opinion in Forbes Colombia on the relevance of the allocation of a 380 soles bonus to independent workers, as part of the measures to mitigate the impact caused by the coronavirus. In addition, they comment on the challenges to reduce labor informality, which affects more […]
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Carmen Ponce: Towards a gender-transformative approach into graduation programs
What is the main challenge for integrating gender transformative approach into graduation programs? Our Associated Researcher, Carmen Ponce, shared her reflections as part of a 2019 workshop held by Fundación Capital, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the World Bank’s Partnership for Economic Inclusion (PEI). To read more insights from the workshop, read Fundación […]
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Miguel Jaramillo gives his thoughts on youth unemployment in an IPE’s reportage
Under what conditions are young workers in Peru? The reportage of the Peruvian Institute of Economics (IPE) published by El Comercio includes the opinion of Miguel Jaramillo, senior researcher at GRADE, on the conditions of formal hiring: “the probability that a worker of minor age will get an indefinite job is just 2%, while for workers between 56 and 65 years it is 22%”.
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Rethinking pensions: How to leave behind ‘Bismarck’?
To protect workers and not jobs. This is the proposal that Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, shared at the III Forum Dialogues for Development. Based on the work that Santiago Levy developed in Mexico, the idea is that people contribute to their pension fund through their purchase, so that part of the VAT they pay should be allocated […]
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Hugo Ñopo gives his thoughts about the alternatives for Venezuelans who emigrate to Peru with high qualifications
CNN en Español talked with Hugo Ñopo about the alternatives for Venezuelans who emigrate to Peru with high qualifications. According to our senior researcher, after an initial shock, “a gain comes: the aggregate productivity of the country will increase”. In addition, given the high informality and institutions to improve, Hugo raise the question: Under what […]
