Institutional News
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GRADE’s new Executive Board
The Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE) is proud to announce our new Executive Board members for the 2018-2020 period: Santiago Cueto – Executive Director María Balarin – Director of Research Ricardo Fort – Director of Projects Our Executive Board is responsible for supervising the institution’s progress over two-year periods. The Executive Director works […]
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GRADE’s researchers are winners at 20th CIES Annual Research Contest
We congratulate our senior researchers Alan Sánchez and Eduardo Zegarra, and our research assistant Walter Noel, whose research proposals were winners in the 20th CIES Annual Research Contest, and initiative of the Consortium for Economic and Social Research. Proposals are: Medium projects: Skills, job training and youth employment: a life cycle approach, by Alan Sánchez. Agro-export boom and diversification in Peru: analyzing the survival […]
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GRADE and IDB held the launch of the book “Profession: Teacher in Latin America”
GRADE and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) held the launch of the IDB new book “Profession: Teacher in Latin America: Why was teacher prestige lost and how to recover it?”. The book analyzes the policies and good practices that Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico and Peru carry out to attract, train and select effective teachers. “The duty […]
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María Balarin discussed the situation of educational policies in Peru at CIUP conference
Our senior researcher, María Balarin, joined the conference “The challenges of development in Peru”, held by the Research Center of the Universidad del Pacífico on Monday 9 and Tuesday 10, July. María discussed the situation of educational policies in the country. You can watch the video of her speech, with a click on the following image:
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GRADE’s new Research Paper addresses the private educational market in Peru
Towards a comprehensive understanding of the functioning of the private educational market, GRADE releases its new Research Paper, “Private market, public consequences. Private provision services in Peru”, by María Balarin, Jostin Kitmang, Hugo Ñopo and María Fernanda Rodríguez. Through a mixed methodology, the study analyzes the recent trajectory of the educational market and its regulation […]
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María Balarin has been appointed as visiting fellow at University of Bath Institute for Policy Research
We congratulate our senior researcher, María Balarin, as she will spend three months researching as a visiting fellow at University of Bath Institute for Policy Research.
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Santiago Cueto is one of the 2017 PUCP Research Prize winners
Our Research Director, Santiago Cueto, is one of the 2017 Research Prize winners, awarded by the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) to its regular and contracted professors who have high quality academic publications, as a result of a research and that generate new knowledge. The criteria for this recognition were established by consensus between the Academic Departments and […]
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Young Lives Peru releases a summary of is findings on the drivers and impacts of childhood poverty in Peru
The longitudinal study Young Lives Peru has published a summary of the findings of five rounds of surveys applied to children and their families —in the years 2002, 2006, 2009, 2013 and 2016—. These findings provide a broad overview of some indicators of child poverty, and account for changes in the lives of children and youth during […]
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Ricardo Fort joined the 5th CIES Presidential Academic Dialogue on the reconstruction of the north of Peru
Our senior researcher Ricardo Fort was one of the nine experts who offered recommendations for the reconstruction of the north of the country, as part of the 5th Presidential Academic Dialogue held on Tuesday, June 12 by the Consortium for the Economic and Social Research (CIES). The event was headed by the President of the Republic, […]
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GRADE long course on impact evaluations of development programs 2018
Those interested can register from Monday June 11, 2018 to Friday August 3, 2018 by submitting their registration form, copy of ID and voucher payment to the email address of the course coordinator. The course will begin on Tuesday, August 14, 2018 and will last 10 weeks. DOWNLOAD the COURSE BROCHURE here. Evaluation is a […]
