Media GRADE
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Ed Tech in Peru: If You Build It, They Might Come (But Probably Not), by Santiago Cueto
“Though so far technology in education has not yet lived up to its promise, we believe that continuing in a process of experimentation and evaluation could help in our quest of finding specific models of using technology that can produce high impacts on learning in a cost-effective way”. Santiago Cueto, Senior Researcher at GRADE, explores […]
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Wilson Hernández’s opinion on the ineffectiveness of protection measures to protect women who suffer gender-based violence
“When we talk about protection measures, maybe one imagines a policeman at the door of your house 24 hours a day, but that is not the case. Most measures are almost suggestions, they have no deterrent power.” Read the opinion of our Adjunct Researcher Wilson Hernández in this Salud con lupa story on the ineffectiveness […]
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Eduardo Zegarra discusses the new urea purchase, via Exitosa Noticias
“The Ministry of Agriculture was told that a fourth purchase was no longer necessary. The most important reason is that there is already enough urea this year. There is a fairly significant private sector import. The problem is one of prices, not quantities. What the government should have done is to generate some kind of descount voucher so that producers […]
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Eduardo Zegarra in RPP Noticias: “The most serious issue is that a subsidy is being managed without a complete registry”
“The register is incomplete. Midagri states that only 35% of the country’s farmers are registered. We have a serious issue, because it is a mechanism that is supposed to reach all farmers. In addition, the Comptroller’s Office has reviewed the first version and has found inconsistencies: underage people, farmers who do not belong to it, […]
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Miguel Jaramillo in RPP Noticias: “Everywhere you look at the quality of employment data, we are worse off than before the pandemic”.
“Employment relative to 2019 in Metropolitan Lima has grown 1%, but unemployment has grown 38%. If we look at proper employment, it has fallen 8% since before the pandemic. This drop particularly affects medium-sized companies. Everywhere you look at the quality of employment data, we are worse off than before the pandemic. If we look […]
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Javier Escobal: “If inflation had been controlled, we would have a poverty rate two points lower than the current one”
“Almost 600,000 more people would not have become poor as a result of this shock. […] These are people who, as a result of the price shock, have become poor. If inflation had been controlled, we would have a poverty rate that would be 2 points lower than the current one”. Javier Escobal, Senior Researcher […]
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Eduardo Zegarra in Exitosa: “Peru is the South American country most affected by food insecurity”.
“Peru is the most food insecure country in South America at this stage of the post-pandemic crisis. The number of people has doubled: before the pandemic there were 8 million, now FAO estimates 16 million of Peruvians with food insecurity”. Our Senior Researcher Eduardo Zegarra was interviewed in Exitosa Noticias about the increase in potato […]
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Labour market in 2022: following the same path, by Miguel Jaramillo
“The number of people in informal employment continues breaking historical records for the country, having reached 9.77 million in the second quarter of the year. On the other hand, the number of formal workers, 4.03 million, remains lower than any point in the last 8 years”. Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, writes about the […]
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The agrarian crisis and Castillo’s goverment, by Eduardo Zegarra
“The announced second agrarian reform, initially thought of as a proposal for profound changes in the way of governing to guide comprehensive policies and budget resources towards the forgotten family farming, has become a slogan almost devoid of any concrete content”. Our Senior Researcher Eduardo Zegarra writes about the agrarian crisis and the challenges facing the new minister of agriculture Jenny Ocampo. […]
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Instrumental learning in the returning to school classes, by Santiago Cueto
“One cannot universally hierarchize learning into, for example, fundamental and secondary (or non-fundamental). Instead, I think it can be argued that learning in reading and mathematics is instrumental for learning in other areas and throughtout life”. Santiago Cueto, Senior Researcher at GRADE, shares his thoughts on learning recovery initiatives focused on reading and mathematics. His article includes a video of the seminar […]
