Opinion Article
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Urgent: An Agenda for Workers, by Miguel Jaramillo. Via El Comercio
“For the vast majority of Peruvian workers, there is no such thing as paid time off.” In his new opinion column, our lead researcher, Miguel Jaramillo, reflects on who really benefits from policies such as the increase in public holidays in Peru. Read the full article in El Comercio here.
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Minute 90: Peru 0 – El Niño 0, by Manuel Glave. Via Jugo
“Smart moves—green infrastructure in headwaters, land-use planning, planned housing relocation—are no longer enough for this year. The only option left is to be pragmatic: invest whatever is possible.” Our Senior Researcher, Manuel Glave, writes about Peru’s institutional inability to anticipate the impacts of El Niño. Read the full article on the news website Jugo here.
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Building Education System Resilience in a Poly-Crisis: Regional Perspectives. New blog by Aranza Ballesteros, Santiago Cueto and co-authors
What does it take to build education systems capable of withstanding constant disruptions? The new NORRAG blog post brings together regional perspectives on the resilience of education systems. Its authors are members of the Observatories for the Resilience of Education Systems initiative under the Global Partnership for Education Knowledge and Innovation Exchange (GPE KIX). Key […]
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The labor market during the last five years, by Miguel Jaramillo
“The post-pandemic recovery in employment allowed for a return to pre-2020 levels, but it was driven mainly by the informal sector rather than the generation of quality jobs”. In light of the debate among technical teams during the presidential runoff, our Senior Researcher Miguel Jaramillo writes in El Comercio about what the evidence indicates regarding […]
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First priority: building a competent state, by Miguel Jaramillo
“On the one hand, we do not have political parties, but rather groups with purely electoral purposes […] On the other hand, we have a state with very limited capacity to design and implement policies.” Ahead of the 2026 elections, Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, writes about the importance of the state’s institutional capacity […]
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Young people seek politicians, by Miguel Jaramillo
“Clearly, young people face the worst situation in the labor market.” Our Senior Researcher Miguel Jaramillo writes in El Comercio about the employment problems that particularly affect young people.
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Strengthening Justice in Education in Adverse Times, by María Balarin and Lizzi O. Milligan
“School experiences, despite the different curricular and pedagogical models in each country, seemed characterised by what we came to describe as shallow pedagogies, which, we argue, constitute a major form of epistemic injustice that seriously limits the contribution that education can make towards necessary societal transformations.” María Balarin and Lizzi O. Milligan present key findings from […]
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Those who are left over: young people in the employment recovery, by Miguel Jaramillo
“Between 2019 and 2024 we see a seven percentage point drop in their labor market participation rate and, as a consequence, there has been an even greater drop in the proportion of young people generating an income”. In his latest op-ed in El Comercio, Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, writes about the employment situation […]
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Do informal entrepreneurs want to formalize? Wishful thinking versus reality, by Miguel Jaramillo
“The problem is not registering, the problem is living every day in formality. As long as the burdens associated with being formal are not rationalized, formalization will be nothing more than a nice wish that succumbs to reality.” Based on rigorous evidence, our Senior Researcher Miguel Jaramillo explains why formalization is not desirable for microentrepreneurs. Read […]
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“Adolescence”: The violence we normalize, by Vanessa Rojas
“Their identities would be taking shape in these physical and virtual environments marked by this structural violence that, unfortunately, reproduce discourses that promote not only hierarchical power relations between men and women, but also misogyny.” Our senior researcher Vanessa Rojas reflects on the themes explored in the Adolescence series. Read her full article in Ojo […]
