Opinion Article
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Santiago Cueto and other experts write on the challenges for leveraging the potential of digital technologies in education in Latin America
According to Santiago Cueto, teachers cannot shoulder the responsibility alone for ensuring that education systems keep up with the dizzying evolution of technology. Improving their skills takes time and requires training, guidance and resources. Together with Dante Castillo and Florencia Ripani, our senior researcher reflects on the issues that prevent the region from harnessing the […]
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Does politics affect the uptake of social policies? Post by Martín Valdivia and others in The Journal of Politics’ blog
Martin Valdivia and coauthors examine whether policy preferences affect the uptake and learning from government programs in the context of Brazil’s Individual Microentrepreneur Program, which provides subsidized access to social security coverage and business-related incentives. To this end, they report the results of a field experiment in low-income communities in Rio de Janeiro. Blog based on […]
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#8M La Mirada: Women workers, in the crisis and after, by Miguel Jaramillo
“Women have more self-employment and less salaried work, figure less among business employers and more among unpaid family workers.” Miguel Jaramillo, senior researcher at GRADE, writes about the impact of the pandemic and the policies implemented in that context on the participation of women workers in economic activity. Read the full op-ed in El Comercio […]
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Access to reading in digital times, by Walter Alvarado from Crece Lee/Worldreader
The pandemic and the recent social crisis have highlighted the educational gaps in the country. Technology is presented as an opportunity to enhance access to knowledge. Walter Alvarado, regional director Peru/LATAM at Worldreader, writes about how digital technologies, with pedagogical and parental accompaniment, “can become an adequate solution to boost those aspects in which the […]
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Food prices: how to benefit producers and consumers, by Carolina Trivelli and Javier Escobal
“Consumers are the main victims of high prices. We all consume food and those who have less spend a higher percentage -almost half of their total expenditure- on food. Expensive food translates – in a situation of stagnant incomes – into hunger and severe restrictions on household consumption. High food prices have partially translated into […]
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The Reform Agrarian versus children, by Roxana Barrantes and Ricardo Fort
“We found was a negative and persistent effect over time of the Agrarian Reform on children’s years of schooling in higher-affected districts, due, in good measure, to the particular type of reform that was implemented in Peru.” In their new article for Jugo de Caigua, Roxana Barrantes (IEP) and Ricardo Fort (GRADE) write about the […]
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The Agrarian Reform versus the Shining Path, by Roxana Barrantes and Ricardo Fort
“This research gives suport to those who usually affirm that, if it had not been for the Agrarian Reform, the Shining Path would have been able to come to power. However, it is also possible to give respond to other economic and social effects, where the results are not encouraging”. New op-ed by Roxana Barrantes (IEP) and Ricardo Fort (GRADE) via Jugo de Caigua. […]
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El mercado laboral del 2022: persisten los déficits estructurales
“Formal employment grew in all age groups, but particularly among the youngest, and at all educational levels, although more so among people with completed secondary school and higher education, where the bulk of the labor force is concentrated. It also grew more among men than women”. Miguel Jaramillo, senior researcher at GRADE, writes in El […]
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The half that is still far away, by Miguel Jaramillo
“As long as half of our population does not come close to reaching their productive potential, talk of development will continue to be a quimera”. Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, writes in Jugo de Caigua about the gaps between men and women in the labor market.
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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 […]
