GRADE frente al COVID-19
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Pandemic and rural employment, by Hugo Ñopo and Daniel Pajita
“To what is already worrying about the drop in employment that has recently spread, it must be added that paid employment has fallen even more. People are shifting to forms of subsistence employment, helping family members in their farms or businesses. the rural economy should be one of the issues to prioritize on the medium-term agenda.” […]
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Miguel Jaramillo’s opinion in Al Jazeera. Peru economy: COVID-19 puts millions of people out of work
“It is the worst recession since the 19th century. The economy shut down completely. In 12 out of 24 regions, there was not a single case of COVID-19. Instead of isolating, the quarantine was also imposed on them, revealing the lack of understanding of the effects of this measure. […] The long-term consequences are enormous: […]
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Miguel Jaramillo in Bloomberg: Peru’s GDP Quarterly Drop
“It’s not so easy for economic activity to return when you’ve had such a brutal drop. Many companies have folded, and they’re going to keep folding. It’s naive to think we’ve touched bottom.” Miguel Jaramillo, senior researcher at GRADE, talked with Bloomberg on Peru’s GDP drop during the second quater due to the pandemic.
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3.5 million people are expected to enter the poverty line due to COVID-19. Hugo Ñopo in Cuarto Poder
“Ten years ago we had poverty levels of about a third, but with poverty that was falling. Now we are going to be in an inverse situation: with the same levels, but with poverty that is increasing.” Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, participated in this Cuarto Poder reportage on the economic and labor precariousness of […]
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Proposal for the reactivation of family farming, by Eduardo Zegarra
“In the best scenario, agrarian poverty has increased from 40 to 60% in this period, and may reach 80% at the end of the year if concrete and comprehensive measures are not taken to support agriculture.” Eduardo Zegarra, senior researcher at GRADE, shares a proposal for the reactivation of family farming via Noticias SER.
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Miguel Jaramillo’s opinion on figures of formal and informal employment
Regarding the recent figures for formal and informal employment, Miguel Jaramillo stated that a change in the trajectory of formal employment was expected for June. However, he warned that in the coming months there would be a strong increase in informality, these last agents go out to carry out their activities to survive. The opinion […]
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Hugo Ñopo’s opinion in The Economist: Latin America opens up before it’s ready
Even with strict lockdown to face the pandemic in Latin American countries, many people have not obeyed. Why? In a region where trust in government is low, citizens are detached from the state “not just legally, but emotionally and cognitively”, said Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, to The Economist.
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Hugo Ñopo in RPP Noticias: How to get a job in times of COVID-19?
“The most important determinant of long-term productivity is human capital. This measure is not just the number of years people went to study, but the skills they developed in the school world. There in lies the key to the long-term employability. […] We must pay attention to a very low-cost or zero-cost public offer of […]
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Eduardo Zegarra shares his thoughts in Caretas on food insecurity during the Covid-19 pandemic
“In May a INEI report came out showing 14% of households in Metropolitan Lima and Callao could not buy meat, fish and eggs. The main reason has a lot to do with many families —socioeconomic levels D and E— don’t have enough money”. Our senior researcher, Eduardo Zegarra, shares his thoughts in this Caretas‘ article that addresses the […]
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and Food Insecurity in Peru, by Eduardo Zegarra
The sanitary crisis, due to the coronavirus in Peru, is also becoming a food crisis. A recent survey by INEI to families in Metropolitan Lima and Callao during the first week of May 2020 attests to that. 14% of households said they had been unable to buy protein-containing foods such as meat, fish, and eggs. […]