Media GRADE
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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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Interview to Manuel Glave on land tenure and pastoral societies in Caylloma, Arequipa, on the sidelines of ELLA Programme
“Despite all factors undermining the condominum regime, or collective action to pasture access, this shows a great resilience, and it is recreated, reproduced and continued […] The main restriction the alpaca breeders are going to face in the next forty or fifty years is water stress”. Read the interview to our senior researcher Manuel Glave by Leisa Revista de Agroecología on […]
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Ideas for better policies. Miguel Jaramillo’s op-ed in On Think Tanks Annual Report 2016
“We believe that pluralism is an essential atribute of the community of think tanks in democratic societies. However, developing countries typically lack strong communities of this sort”. Read our executive director, Miguel Jaramillo‘s op-ed in On Think Tanks annual report 2016, an initiative focused on the development of policy research institutes or think tanks.
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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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Miguel Jaramillo: It’s High Time for Good Governance
Global Development Network talked with our Executive Director, Miguel Jaramillo, about the validity of good governance in the development policy discussion: “We should not underestimate the importance of good governance. We can develop sophisticated and rigorous policy designs, but in the end, whether they are effective or not, whether they reach their goals or not, […]
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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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Why regulate the educational services market? 11 reasons
How to regulate the market for educational services? To answer this question, Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, address 11 arguments in Foco Económico blog to explain in which way this particular market differs from the free competition model.
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Faces of Reform: Miguel Jaramillo joins the Social Protection Commitee
The Ministry of Economy and Finance of Peru released its Social Protection Commitee, whose main function is to offer recommendations to improve the coverage and quality of social protection services (pension, health and unemployment), under a tax sustainability and formalization-drive framework. Our executive director, Miguel Jaramillo, is one of the five external independent experts appointed for this […]
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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 […]