Media GRADE
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Wilson Hernández in Latina: To ban motorcycles or not?
INEI data show that 40% of money, wallet or cell phone thefts are committed on a motorcycle. 30% of these robberies, in mototaxi. In some cities of Colombia they prohibited carrying a companion on a motorcycle or even the circulation of it. That study revealed that “in effect crime is reduced, but it is very […]
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Mauricio Espinoza in TV Peru: “A quarter of a million Peruvians who would have returned from the city to the countryside in 2020 alone”
“Using different methods and sources of information, we arrived at a figure of a quarter of a million Peruvians who would have returned from the city to the countryside in 2020 alone. […] They are people who are in precarious situations and because of the restrictions of the pandemic were forced to return to their […]
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University graduates and employment: Interview with Miguel Jaramillo in RPP’s Así somos
“The time for emergency employment has passed. A year ago, one could think of using temporary employment through public investment to generate more jobs. But what is needed now is that the engines of regular employment growth are put in place. Policies are needed to promote employment in the private sector. Unfortunately, none aim to […]
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Hugo Ñopo in Americas Quaterly: Peru and the accession process to OECD
“Conceiving and implementing such an ambitious reform agenda not just as the policy of a given administration, but as a central policy of state, will be a challenge. But the need to protect the OECD process from changes in the political climate may also help strengthen it by establishing it as an accepted part of […]
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Martín Benavides in RPP Noticias: “It is important that citizens understand that the process of regulating the quality of universities is imminently technical, not political”
“It is important that citizens understand that the process of regulating the quality of the universities is imminently technical, not political. The regulator has to ensure, beyond the interests of the people involved in the evaluation processes, that the university indicators must aligns with the expectations outlined in the licensing models. It has been shown that […]
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Martín Benavides: “The regulation system (of Sunedu) is one of those with the greatest autonomy, compared to other countries”
“If one makes a comparison between different countries, the regulatory system (of Sunedu) is one of those that has the greatest autonomy […] basically due to the way in which its Board of Directors is elected. The five members are elected by public competition. That is the greatest guarantee of impartiality. These members meet very […]
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Public policies, economic recovery and structural weaknesses, by Miguel Jaramillo
“A first conclusion of this analysis is that, although public investment can be key to reviving economic growth, it does not go very far when it comes to addressing the structural challenges that arise in the country. In contrast, public spending on health and other social sectors can do it. ” Read the new op-ed […]
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Hugo Ñopo in La República about going back to school in 2022: We should take risks
We have lacked the conviction of knowing where the important thing is and this is in our children, in the future of the country, what we are doing to be a more prosperous nation. And when I say that I do not only mean economically. Of course, the economy matters, but there are things that […]
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In defense of the University Reform. Martín Benavides in La Mula
“Sunedu appears so that more students are not scammed as were those from universities with a denied license. There is evidence of professional underemployment, that these students were not able to recover their investments. Faced with this problem, the regulator appears to put things in place in such a way that there are no more […]
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Migrate to survive. Ojo Público’s reportage gathers GRADE findings
Between March and December 2020, approximately 248.311 Peruvians returned to their rural areas of origin from the cities. According to the study from our researchers Ricardo Fort, Mauricio Espinoza, and Alvaro Espinoza for the Inter-American Development Bank, this is the first mass return process in the history of Peru. Read OjoPúblico’s reportage. DOWNLOAD THE STUDY here.
