Media GRADE
-
A radiography of informality. El Comercio highlighted Miguel Jaramillo’s study on the demand for formality among microfirms
The Peruvian Institute of Economics (IPE) published an article on the evidence around informality. For this, gathers our Executive Director Miguel Jaramillo’s findings on the demand for formality among microfirms in Downtown Lima, Is there demand for formality among informal firms? Evidence from microfirms in downtown Lima (GRADE 2013): “The study reports that only one out of […]
-
Jaime de Althaus highlights Miguel Jaramillo’s study of 2004 on the regulation of labor market in Peru
In his op-ed titled “Overregulation is not ideological”, journalist Jaime de Althaus highlights one of Miguel Jaramillo’s findings of 2004 on the regulation of labor market in Peru: “There is the myth that in the 90’s labor was desregulated and therefore precarious and informalized. But the truth is that non-wage labor costs (“benefits”) went from 48% […]
-
Through screenshots, I learned
Despite the progress of technological modernization in the classroom, “[…] human essence, critical thinking and feelings will not dissapear”, said Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, in an article published by Somos magazine. According to Hugo, in addition, a key challenge in this scenario will be to improve the quality of teachers so that they “creatively face with multigrade teaching, diversity and bullying, […]
-
Legislation for gender equity: when good intentions are not enough
For helping improve the design of policies that promote gender equity in employment, our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo, analyzes the problems of two recently approved law projects. The article was published by the blog Foco Económico.
-
Patricia del Río’s op-ed highlights Lorena Alcázar’s study on the economic impact of anaemia in Peru
Journalist Patricia del Río warned about anaemia numbers reported by the 2016 Encuesta Demográfica y de Salud Familiar (Demographic and Family Health Survey): “More than 40% of children under 3 years have anaemia”, and highlighted the main finding of Lorena Alcázar’s study on the economic impact of this disease in the country: the cost of anaemia for Peruvian society reached approximately S/2.777 […]
-
Peru: If You Think You Can Get Smarter, You Will
Get a closer look at the evidence on the impact of “Expand your Mind”, a low-cost and short-term innovation conducted by researchers Ingo Outes from University of Oxford, Alan Sánchez from the Group for the Analysis of Development, and Renos Vakis from the World Bank, with the aim to conveying to students the idea that intelligence can grow […]
-
The quality of public investment without land planning, by Alvaro Espinoza and Ricardo Fort
Why is urban public investment poorly prioritized, disjointed and fragmented? Read the article by our researchers, Álvaro Espinoza y Ricardo Fort, published in La Mula, with the main findings of their study on the quality of public investment without land planning in vulnerable neighborhoods in Lima.
-
Sobre mejoras en aprendizajes, por Patricia Mc Lauchlan de Arregui
Sorry, this entry is only available in European Spanish.
-
Lights, shadows and pendings issues in education, by Santiago Cueto
“The ECE have contributed to set the learnings at the center of educational concerns”, stated Santiago Cueto, Research Director at GRADE, Country Coordinator of Young Lives in Peru and member of the Consejo Nacional de Educación, in El Comercio, on the sidelines of the 2016 national censal assessment of student performance (Evaluación Censal de Estudiantes or ECE in Spanish).
-
The contribution of GRADE and a terrible Niño, by Gustavo Yamada (Universidad del Pacífico)
Gustavo Yamada, Director at the Universidad del Pacífico Research Center, highlights in El Comercio the book published for our 35 years of foundation, “Investigación para el desarrollo en el Perú: once balances” (Research for development in Peru: eleven research reviews): “It is worth reading it. Javier Escobal states that one of the book’s recurring messages is […]
