Media GRADE
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What to change and what to keep ?, by Hugo Ñopo
Our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo, gathered the opinion of 23 Peruvian economists on what should and should not change in the country’s economy in the next five years. Topics such as social protection, taxation, labor formality, macroeconomic management, free trade, private investment, social programs, educational policies, among others, were addressed. Read his new article in […]
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GRADE’s study is highlighted in an RPP Noticias article on school dropout
“… the characteristics of students who have dropped out of school or who are at risk of doing so are having repeated a grade one or more times, being in a situation of poverty or extreme poverty, showing low educational performance and belonging to an indigenous group “. The website of Radio Programas del Peru highlights […]
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The poor is not foolish, stop foolishness, by Hugo Ñopo
“Poverty and vulnerability hit the immediate quality of life very hard, but as or more important is the limitation that this imposes on decision-making for the future. It is easy to judge the poor from the outside, attributing responsibility for their condition, but the reality is different”. Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, writes on low social […]
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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 […]
