Media GRADE
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The Consequences of Gender Discrimination in Work and Education in Peru, by Lorena Alcazar
In Peru, gender is one of the main factors contributing to disparities in education and employment. In this new article for Southern Voice, Lorena Alcázar, Senior Researcher at GRADE, outlines the many ways in which young Peruvians struggle to access decent work. Lorena leads Peru’s study case as part of the Southern Voice’s ‘State of […]
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Home internet access and child development: Evidence from Peru
A new column by Ofer Malamud, Associate Professor at Northwestern University, Santiago Cueto, Executive Director at GRADE, Julián Cristia, Lead Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank, and Diether W. Beuermann, Senior Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank, summarizes the experimental evidence of the impact of home internet access in child outcomes in Peru, reported in […]
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They denounced, but were murdered, by GRADE’s consultant Wilson Hernández
“International evidence shows that the most committed and sensitized police officers are those who best serve women who report violence from their partners”. Our consultant Wilson Hernández shares three key ideas in El Comercio so that previous delations to intimate femicide can be useful: better prepare the police to protect female informers, draw on technological solutions, and apply the risk assessment to those denounced.
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Meeting the Left Behind Youth in Peru, by Lorena Alcazar
Young people in Peru face tremendous challenges in both qualities of education and access to decent work. In this Southern Voice article, our Senior Researcher Lorena Alcázar shares relevant findings on the conditions of those left behind in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in our country and how to help them.
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María Balarin: “La respuesta que la ley plantea es promover una mayor transparencia de parte de los proveedores de servicios educativos privados hacia los padres de familia”. Pensiones de colegios particulares en debate
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Start of classes. Santiago Cueto: ‘We must look for the balanced development of the people’
‘We must look for the balanced development of the people. If some children receive a lot of pressure from their families and they are very good in the academic field, but they fail to develop social and emotional skills, one could not call that a successful education’. Listen to the interview with our executive director, […]
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Rural poverty exacerbates in Peru and Latin America
Nuestro investigador principal, Eduardo Zegarra, fue entrevistado en la revista belga Sos Faim sobre pobreza rural en el Perú. A continuación, compartimos la reproducción traducida al español de la entrevista completa: El último informe de las Naciones Unidas sobre la pobreza rural en América Latina y el Caribe señala que los países de estas regiones enfrentan […]
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Miguel Jaramillo: Employment growth would be expected from 2% to 2.5%
“It is reasonable to expect an employment growth rate between 2% and 2.5% for this year. How much of that will be formal employment? I do not think there will be much change in the structure, unless it really advances rapidly in fighting some of the issues that generate additional costs in the labor market”. Miguel […]
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Property tax: innovate for better governing, by Ricardo Fort and Alvaro Espinoza
Our researchers Ricardo Fort and Álvaro Espinoza shared a concrete and low cost proposal in order to improve the municipal governance and to increase the property tax collection using modern technology. Read the full text in Gestión Newspaper.
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Preliminary findings of Young Marriage and Parenthood Study (YMAPS) in Peru
Vanessa Rojas, Adjunct Researcher at GRADE and Coordinator of the Qualitative Component of Young Lives in Peru, shared in Radio Nacional the preliminary findings of the Young Marriage and Parenthood (YMAPS) qualitative studies, show the perceptions of young women and men about their experiences in cohabitation, pregnancy, maternity/paternity to an early age. Qualitative evidence of […]
