GRADE frente al COVID-19
-
Gender-based violence in pandemic. Podcast GRADE Conversa 16 featuring Angelo Cozzubo (University of Chicago and PUCP)
The expansion of COVID-19 forced goverments to implement social isolation measures that, in turn, created unique conditions for increase violence. During the months of quarantine in Peru, non-essential services were closed, including non-reporting services for victims of violence such as the Women’s Emergency Centers. Police stations did not close, but the availability of police to attend victims […]
-
Miguel Jaramillo in RPP Noticias: “Everywhere you look at the quality of employment data, we are worse off than before the pandemic”.
“Employment relative to 2019 in Metropolitan Lima has grown 1%, but unemployment has grown 38%. If we look at proper employment, it has fallen 8% since before the pandemic. This drop particularly affects medium-sized companies. Everywhere you look at the quality of employment data, we are worse off than before the pandemic. If we look […]
-
Javier Escobal: “If inflation had been controlled, we would have a poverty rate two points lower than the current one”
“Almost 600,000 more people would not have become poor as a result of this shock. […] These are people who, as a result of the price shock, have become poor. If inflation had been controlled, we would have a poverty rate that would be 2 points lower than the current one”. Javier Escobal, Senior Researcher […]
-
Patricia Arregui in Exitosa Noticias: If distancing is eliminated in schools, it is necessary to ensure other measures
“If distancing is eliminated in schools, the other measures are necessary: the mask, ventilation, and that the entities that supervise ensure that the goals of vaccination, ventilation and use of a mask are met. Another thing that we The concern is that the authorization for healthy and healthy food kiosks to operate, as well as […]
-
Eduardo Zegarra in RPP News: demands around the second agrarian reform
“The ministry is dedicated to things that do not really prioritize the family farming agenda. Among them, an alleged unlocking of the Chavimochic project, which is highly controversial, and a first approach by the minister saying that it will be a priority of his management to grant new exonerations for the agro-export sector. All this […]
-
Eduardo Zegarra in Canal N about the second agrarian reform fostered by the Government
“The announcement of giving additional tax exemptions to the agro-export sector is the complete opposite of the second agrarian reform approach, which is rather oriented towards the majority family farming in the country. It is understood that the agro-export sector already has enough benefits and, more efforts must be directed towards this sector (family farming). […]
-
Eduardo Zegarra in La República: “The agrarian reform is about to become an unfulfilled promise”
“The government is in a very serious problem, without urea, the next agricultural campaign will be a total failure and there will be a drop in production that could reach 30%. […] One of the proposals of the second agrarian reform is to build national capacity to produce fertilizers”. Eduardo Zegarra, Senior Researcher at GRADE and […]
-
María Balarin and María Fernanda Rodríguez are part of an upcoming report on how education in emergencies, done properly, builds peace
Our researchers María Balarin and María Fernanda Rodríguez have been part of the preparation of a report exploring the obstacles and opportunities for education’s engagement with peace. The document will soon be launched by the Geneva Global Hub for Education in Emergencies. The report presents a framework to help analyze and recognize the impact of historical, epistemic, […]
-
Eduardo Zegarra in Sudaca Peru: social mobilization for the agrarian strike
“After the pandemic, a new problem has hit the agricultural sector even more: the sharp increase in the price of fertilizers. First the price of urea doubled, then it tripled, and we are currently in a serious problem of shortages [… ] Peru imports 100% of the urea. We do not produce it internally. This […]
-
Hitting the AFP like piñatas, by Hugo Ñopo
“The private pension system was born with an original sin: trying to turn the right to a decent retirement into a commodity with high commissions”. Read the new weekly column by Hugo Ñopo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, for Jugo de Caigua about the new retirement of AFP (Pension Fund Administrators) approved by the Economy Commission of our […]