Media GRADE
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Ojo Público highlights Hugo Ñopo’s opinion on the disparities of unpaid work
“If there is a space that is unequal par excellence, it is home. The National Survey on the Use of Time reveals that 80% of unpaid domestic tasks are done by women. Men and women go out to work and education with an inequality of gigantic opportunities, which for them is equivalent to two days […]
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Were we condemned to the pandemic debacle?, by Miguel Jaramillo and Kristian Lopez Vargas
Was Peru condemned to have so many deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic? How do we compare to other countries? How much of this debacle is explained by the strategy followed, and how much by our social indicators and the dire situation of our health system? Read the new op-ed for El Comercio by Miguel Jaramillo, GRADE’s […]
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Unpaid Family Work: Informal and no income, by Hugo Ñopo
“These people are probably in one of the most beautiful forms of cooperation and solidarity, but also in one of the most precarious working conditions. Is there anything more precarious than a zero-income labor informality?” Our Senior Researcher Hugo Ñopo writes in Foco Economico about who and where are unpaid family workers in Peru. Gathering the annual […]
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The Agrarian Law in Limbo, Where to Go?, by Eduardo Zegarra
“The responsibility for this crisis is there, not in the workers who are desperate and have been harmed by this situation for so long. We hope that this time Congress and the Executive do realize that the most urgent thing is to solve this problem with measures that we believe are viable and make economic […]
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A victory of the agrarian workers?, by Miguel Jaramillo
“The most critical problem in the labor markets in our country, agricultural or in other sectors, is informality. Policies that want to favor workers should focus on this problem.” The new op-ed of our senior researcher Miguel Jaramillo for El Comercio addresses the repealed labor regime of the Agrarian Promotion Law.
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Lorena Alcázar joined a REDES podcast about the drama of the “ninis” in Peru
“The vulnerability of young people in the context of a pandemic is usually associated only with the ‘NEETs’, but in reality the problem is more complex and heterogeneous. There are almost a third of women who, in most cases, are dedicated to maternity or domestic work “. Our senior researcher Lorena Alcazar joined the fifth episode of ‘Hablemos […]
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Eduardo Zegarra explains in RPP Noticias the labor conditions of agro-export workers
“The labor part of the Agrarian Promotion Law does not create a specific type of contract for the agricultural sector. Firms use the general regime in the form of temporary employment, but what this law does is to degrade some basic rights of workers in the use of these temporary contracts. For example, CTS, bonuses and […]
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Wilson Hernández shares his opinion in El Comercio about the police reform: lay the foundations and propose a plan
What this government will do is lay the foundations for the police reform and propose a work plan for a commission to execute it as of July 28, 2021. But in these months of the transitional government, progress can be made on important issues”. According to our adjunct researcher, Wilson Hernández, these issues are three: improving the […]
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Eduardo Zegarra shares his opinion in AgroNoticias about food imports
“There is a total abandonment of the protection of national production. It is a trend of the last 30 years of successive governments, which have favored the importation of subsidized food and unprotected our agriculture, and that is passing bills. That is why we have very high agrarian poverty rates”. Eduardo Zegarra, senior researcher at […]
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Sagasti’s administration and the agrarian agenda in the pandemic, by Eduardo Zegarra
“It is no small thing that the new government administration must face in the midst of a pandemic. […] Peruvian agriculture deserves a change of course now, with a vision of development and attention to the needs of our more than two million family farmers For the good of the country, we hope and hope […]