Media GRADE
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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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Promoting informality, by Alvaro Espinoza
“A really sensible housing policy without consistency in the title of the precarious land, but rather generates alternatives of access to decent housing, or at least to the authorized lots, for the families who have to have in the land traffickers their only option viable”. Our adjunct researcher, Álvaro Espinoza, writes in El Comercio about the […]
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Employment: the three dogmas of the old formality, by Hugo Ñopo
“In Peru, with limited access to capital and poorly developed financial markets, work is even more important. Labor incomes cover three-quarters of the budgets of Peruvian households. Therefore, there is no better welfare policy than promoting a better job market”. Read the new op-ed by Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, in El Comercio.
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Hugo Ñopo shares his thoughts on the Congress’ project to allocate no less than 6% of GDP to education
“Three-quarters of educational spending is teachers ‘salaries. It is nonsense for teachers’ salaries to fluctuate. It is absolutely wrong and it puts incentives quite perverse.” Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, and other experts consulted by El Comercio shared their opinion on the recent reform approved by Congress to modify the constitution and establish that the State […]
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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 […]
