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GRADE’s study is highlighted in an RPP Noticias article on school dropout
“… the characteristics of students who have dropped out of school or who are at risk of doing so are having repeated a grade one or more times, being in a situation of poverty or extreme poverty, showing low educational performance and belonging to an indigenous group “. The website of Radio Programas del Peru highlights […]
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Ojo Público highlights Hugo Ñopo’s opinion on the disparities of unpaid work
“If there is a space that is unequal par excellence, it is home. The National Survey on the Use of Time reveals that 80% of unpaid domestic tasks are done by women. Men and women go out to work and education with an inequality of gigantic opportunities, which for them is equivalent to two days […]
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Eduardo Zegarra shares his opinion in AgroNoticias about food imports
“There is a total abandonment of the protection of national production. It is a trend of the last 30 years of successive governments, which have favored the importation of subsidized food and unprotected our agriculture, and that is passing bills. That is why we have very high agrarian poverty rates”. Eduardo Zegarra, senior researcher at […]
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Wilson Hernández in RPP Noticias: survey reveals that 30% of victims noticed the first sign of violence in the first year of romantic relationship
Wilson Hernández, adjunct researcher at GRADE, spoke in RPP Noticias about the findings of a survey conducted among women victims of intimate partner violence. This study indicates that 30% of the victims noticed the first sign of violence in the first year of romantic relationship. While another 30% perceived violence in the second year.
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Isabel Gonzáles in Ojo Público: “There is no updated register of artisanal fishermen”
“There is no updated register of artisanal fishermen,” said Isabel Gonzáles, assistant researcher at GRADE and member of the Humboldt Tipping project, in a dialogue between OjoPúblico and Oceana on the challenges of the fishing sector with a view to the Bicentennial. The verification team of the research medium reviewed this statement and confirmed that […]
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Miguel Jaramillo in El Comercio: Young people face informality and unemployment in the labor market
“The probability that a young person reachs a formal job is only 15%, which means that more than 80% of young people have an informal job.” Regarding the recent figures published by the National Institute of Statistics and Information (INEI) for the national urban area, Miguel Jaramillo, senior researcher at GRADE, spoke with El Comercio about the […]
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Hugo Ñopo in The New York Times: “Peru’s Congress has become a ‘a Molotov cocktail’, built on unstable ingredients mixed together from years of misguided policy”
“Peru’s Congress has become a ‘a Molotov cocktail’, built on unstable ingredients mixed together from years of misguided policy”, said Hugo Ñopo in The New York Times. According to our senior researcher, these ingredients are three. The first ingredient was a weak and fragmented party system that encouraged politicians to shift alliances to suit their […]
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Miguel Jaramillo in RPP Noticias: impact of the pandemic on employment
“If you look at the evolution of employment in Metropolitan Lima, you see that informal employment is growing faster than formal employment. Informal employment, particularly self-employment, fell a lot with restrictions on mobility, but now it is growing very fast, because the independent worker has no social protection mechanism”. Miguel Jaramillo, senior researcher at GRADE, spoke […]
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María Balarin in La República: closure of private schools due to the pandemic
If the majority of schools that close are those considered low-cost, it would be an interesting effect of the pandemic, according to María Balarin, senior researcher at GRADE. “It was politically very complicated. The pandemic has generated a migration to public schools and that is positive in the midst of a complex and challenging situation.” Read the […]
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El Comercio highlights findings by Alvaro Espinoza and Ricardo Fort on the consequences of a law that fosters property titles to irregularly occupied land
Today, Monday 19, is the deadline for President Martín Vizcarra to observe the law that expands the titling of irregularly occupied land. Regarding the dire consequences of this measure, El Comercio highlights the recent findings of our researchers Alvaro Espinoza and Ricardo Fort: the 43 largest cities in Peru have expanded their urban land by […]
