Media GRADE
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How to protect the national production of rice and corn against imports? Eduardo Zegarra shares his thoughts
How to protect the national production of rice and corn against imports? Regarding the Government’s recent action facing the demand of small producers to prohibit the importation of rice, our senior researcher Eduardo Zegarra recommends for both products to negotiate with the agro-industry, in such a way that the tariffs are lowered, but under the […]
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Ricardo Fort gives his thoughts on the challenges of small-scale agriculture
How to advance in the challenges of small-scale agriculture? Our senior researcher, Ricardo Fort, gives his thoughts in La República newspaper: “The development of the agro-export sector is beneficial, but it could be more if we built cooperative platforms between all the sectors from the State that allow an apprenticeship of what the agro-export sector has already advanced and transmit […]
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How does anaemia affect the national economy?
How does anaemia affect the national economy? With regard to the recent numbers from the Demographic and Health Survey (ENDES) 2017, El Comercio highlights the findings of Lorena Alcázar on the economic impact of anaemia in Peru. The main finding of our researcher is that the prevalence of this disease costs Peruvian society approximately S […]
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Countryman’s Day: Eduardo Zegarra gives his thoughts on the state of little agriculture in Peru
On the sidelines of the Countryman’s Day, our senior researcher, Eduardo Zegarra, give his thoughts in Agraria.pe on the state of small agriculture. He thinks that the Law for the Agrarian Promotion must homologate its labor regime with the general regime, in such a way that “the agricultural workers have guaranteed all they corresponding rights”. […]
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Stories about children. Oswaldo Molina writes about the 15 years of Young Lives Peru
What is it like to be a poor child in Peru? Oswaldo Molina, director of the Master’s in Economics at Universidad del Pacífico, writes in El Comercio about the findings of Young Lives Peru during 15 years of research. Although, in general terms, the study shows that the welfare of families has improved in these […]
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Eduardo Zegarra explains the Agrarian Law, its benefits and the problems of its special labor regime
What is the Law for the Promotion of the Agrarian Sector or Agrarian Law? What worked and what did not? Eduardo Zegarra, senior researcher at GRADE, explained in Ideeleradio its benefits and problems for which, he thinks, it must be reformed: “The labor regime of the law can not remain as the special one. The fundamental labor […]
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Eduardo Zegarra: the Agrarian Law did not mean a significant advance in the reduction of poverty
According to our senior researcher, Eduardo Zegarra, the Agrarian Law does not contribute significantly to the reduction of poverty in coastal areas of Peru. He said in La República: “There is no evidence that conditions in agro-export areas have improved more than in others that do not have the activity.” He also said that the special […]
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Opportunities for poor youth in Peru
Our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo, synthesizes the findings of his study, together with Ana Paula Franco, about the opportunities for poor young people in Peru: “Regarding employment, the news are discouraging in multiple dimensions: young people, in comparison to the adult population, show lower labor participation, higher unemployment, higher underemployment and more informality. In the education […]
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Hugo Ñopo: The socio-emotional skills of the Peruvian soccer team
With the right encourage, people can learn to move from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset, which leads to improvements in achievement. Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, gathers recent advances in psychology and behavioral economics to analyze the socio-emotional skills developed by the Peruvian soccer team. The article was published in El Comercio’s […]
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Miguel Jaramillo: Constitutional Court reduced the probability of having an indefinite employment contract by 57%
The magazine SEMANAeconómica highlights the study of our executive director, Miguel Jaramillo, who finds a relationship between a judgment issued by the Constitutional Court that allows reinstatement in a job and the reduction in the probability that a worker has a contract for an indefinite period and the fall of unionization. Miguel discussed his findings […]
