Media GRADE
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Miguel Jaramillo in Gestión: “The 2001 labor reform leads to very negative effects on workers”
Gestión highlights the findings from the study by Miguel Jaramillo, Julio Almonacid and Luciana de la Flor, “The desprotective effects of employment protection”, which addresses the impact of the ruling issued by the Constitutional Court in 2001 on decisions of the type of contract used in the Peruvian labor market and the workers’ well-being. According to Jaramillo: “In the […]
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Why is there an “epidemic” of temporary contracts in Peru?
The Peruvian Institute of Economics, via El Comercio, highlights the findings of the study by Miguel Jaramillo, Julio Almonacid and Luciana De La Flor, “The deprotecting effects of employment protection: the impact of the 2001 labor reform”. The stury shows that by 2015, the ruling of the Constitutional Court of 2001 would have cost the creation […]
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Inclusive education: What can be done to achieve it?
How can we achieve a truly inclusive education? In an exchange of e-mails, Mariana Rodríguez, chair at Laureate in Peru, and Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, discusses discrepancies and found matching points to address the challenge of improving education in our country. The article was published by El Comercio.
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Javier Escobal gives his thoughts on the doubts and criticisms left by the 2017 Census
El Comercio gathered the thoughts of Javier Escobal, senior researcher at GRADE and member of the Advisory Council of the National Censuses, during the press conference after the 2017 Census. Javier discussed the census omission of housing in urban areas; between 2% and 3% of the total population, according to the head of the National Institute of Statistics and Information (INEI): “The […]
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MIDIS 4th Social Inclusion Week: Lorena Alcázar discussed The Lancet proposals for early childhood public policies
Our senior researcher, Lorena Alcázar, shared the main messages of The Lancet proposals for early childhood public policies discussed at the VI Social Inclusion Week (15-19 October), held by the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion (MIDIS): “A message is the relevance of investing in the early years of children, showing the cost of the effects of this group not achieving […]
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Hugo Ñopo gives his thoughts on the challenges Peru must overcome to erradicate poverty
According to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Peru should put and end to poverty for that year. For that, is key to promote the Sustainable Development Goals. What are the challenges to moving towards this goal? Our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo gives his thoughts to El Comercio: “Henceforth, each reduction in one point of poverty will […]
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Hugo Ñopo: “Gender equity is not a ‘women issue'”
“It is often wrong to talk about gender as a ‘women issue’. First because equity is a moral issue, and second, for economic reasons. Productivity of the country is going to improve only to the extent that we use the full potential of our human capital”. Read El Comercio‘s interview to our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo, on gender equity in […]
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Hugo Ñopo: We must not fear the evaluation
Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, criticizes the various legislative initiatives to rethink the teacher achievement test: “The fact is that those who are not up to the country’s education have to step aside for the good of the system. Today, they are given up to three opportunities to pass the test and stay in the teacher career”.
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Hugo Ñopo on gender equity in Peru. A Channel N interview
“In order for an average Peruvian household to be able to function normally, it requires some 30-32 hours of unpaid domestic work, of whic 24 are female. With these great disparities within households, men and women go to work and to study; they are in other markets with very important differences of opportunity”. Watch the interview with Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher […]
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Hugo Ñopo on TV Peru News: the current situation of education
“Only with a combination of better salaries and better consideration of excellence, the teaching career will progress. This a long-term task”, said our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo, on TV Peru News. This and other issues on the current situation of education in Peru were discussed by Hugo, after Idel Vexler was appointed as the new Minister […]
