Opinion Article
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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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Inequality in academy, by Lorena Alcázar and María Balarin
In the Peruvian social sciences, half of the university students are women. However, only one in three teachers and one in five media experts are women. Why do we see fewer women in academic events, media and in teaching and management positions? What can be done about it? We share the op-ed by Lorena Alcázar and María Balarin, […]
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The discussion about those who matter the most, by Hugo Ñopo
Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, addresses in Foco Económico the discussion around the new poverty numbers in Peru: “Having more urban poor than rural poor was the new that attracted the most attention. For the first time, the percentage of urban poor was statistically higher than 50%. What did not attract attention, because it is […]
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From the countryside to the city, by Hugo Ñopo
“The strategy of becoming a ‘country of entrepreneurs’ is not only ineffective in combating poverty, but it has negative impacts on our aggregate productivity. For poor households -the focus of our attention today- dependent employment is better less uncertainties.” Our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo, explains in El Comercio what is the new reality of Peruvian […]
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San Marcos: an issue or sympton of something major?, by Hugo Ñopo
According to our senior researcher Hugo Ñopo, the claims of the students of the National University of San Marcos are symptoms of a major problem: “It is a network of interdependent problems that arrived a long time ago and concern the university system, not just San Marcos: Two central elements of this network are financing and governance. […]
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What would Vizcarra say?, by Hugo Ñopo
What does Martin Vizcarra’s experience in education tell us? Our senior researcher Hugo Ñopo writes in El Comercio about the achievement in learning indicators of students in Moquegua while Vizcarra was its regional president, and what could be attempted at the national level.
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The authorities change, the challenges continue, by Hugo Ñopo
“It is important to maintain the prohibition of creating new universities. We do not need, we need better”. Regarding the recent change of authority in the National Supervisory Authority for Higher Education (Sunedu), our senior researcher, Hugo Ñopo, writes in El Comercio about the pending policy challenges to improve the Peruvian university system.
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Labor policy: we must look at the evidence, by Miguel Jaramillo
“We need a system that provides flexibility, decriminalizes dismissal and protects workers, not jobs”. Miguel Jaramillo, Executive Director at GRADE, shares his thoughts in El Comercio on effects of the contract reform promoted by the TC (Peruvian Constitutional Court) over the decisions regarding the type of contract used in the labor market and its consequences […]
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Labor stability: good intentions and perverse results, by Miguel Jaramillo
Miguel Jaramillo shares his thoughts in Gestión about the effects of the labor reform promoted by the Constitutional Court in 2001 on the type of contract decisions and the well-being of workers: “This reform led to the replacement of just over 900,000 permanent jobs. Due to permanent contracts offer better salaries than temporary contracts, the loss […]
