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Santiago Cueto is part of a special report on the state of education in Peru, broadcasted by TV Peru Noticias
“Peruvian education in the last decades has seen many improvements, for example the rates of enrolment are high and still growing. In primary education are above 90% and in early and secondary education are around 80%. What remains is to enhance the quality of the educational services and to improve equity, regarding the different opportunties […]
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Peruvians pay up to ten times more for drinking water
Peruvians do not perceive the complexity of the management of a water company, said Eduardo Zegarra, senior researcher at GRADE, in a Instituto Integración article on the management of drinking water service companies in Peru. “Despite its vital relevance, we pay little for it. It is a huge challenge for fares to finance all of its production”, added Zegarra.
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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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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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GRADE: Peru has over 400 thousand hectares to plant oil palm
“… it have been identified potential areas for oil palm plantations, strategies for linking small scale agricultors into the production chain, and legal and institutional aspects”. Ricardo Fort, senior researcher at GRADE and editor of the book “¿Agroindustria en la Amazonía?”, shared with diario Gestión the main issues addressed in the publication, linked to the possibility of […]
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Tambopata: the Peruvian nature reserve that begins to become a desert
“Evidence shows that a policy to control illegal mining based on coercion is not going to work”, said Gerardo Damonte, senior researcher at GRADE, in a BBC Mundo reportage on deforestation caused by illegal mining in Tambopata National Reserve. According to Damonte, the government need to formalize the miners, register them to know where they settle, and provide […]
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‘Ninis’: the number of young Peruvians who not study nor work has increase
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More young Peruvians do not study nor work. An Instituto Integración report gathers Lorena Alcázar and Hugo Ñopo opinion
18% of young Peruvians between 15 and 29 years are Ninis, “neither work nor study,” according to a report undertook by Instituto Integración. Although it is a lower rate than other Latin America countries, Lorena Alcázar, senior researcher of GRADE, states: “The low percentage of Ninis in Peru is explained due to high rates of informality and underemployment. […]
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Dialogue on politics: presentations and reportage
RESUMEN DEL SEMINARIO Revisar el pacto social-fiscal y avanzar en la formación de capital humano fueron las dos grandes tareas, con miras a la mejora de la productividad del país, expuestas al premier Fernando Zavala durante la clausura del seminario Diálogo de Políticas, organizado por GRADE. Durante dos jornadas, 26 y 27 de septiembre, el […]
