Opinion Article
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The failed and farcical start of FAE-Agro, now what?, by Eduardo Zegarra
“The Executive and Congress have the word (and the ability to act). Peruvian agriculture cannot continue to be mistreated in this way, with the sight and patience of all of us. It is not possible that we continue to pay our farmers like this, who with their effort and dedication feed us every day.” In the […]
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“Such things don’t happen to a young lady”, by Wilson Hernández
“Machismo is a headless monster. It is everywhere and nowhere. School and family are pointed out as spaces to change the way we conceive women and men. But what roles should the media play? of communication before comments to their news that blame the victims of the aggressions they suffer? “. In his new op-ed for […]
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Mining in Peru and Chile: the quality of dialogue needs to be lifted up, by Manuel Glave
Although Peru and Chile have implemented the Environmental Impact Assessment System (SEIA), it has little credibility and trust among populations and it has not been a mechanism that prevents socio-environmental conflict. In this Ojo Público article, our senior researcher Manuel Glave analyzes the mechanisms of citizen participation in territories with large-scale mining based on a recent study comparing both countries.
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State populism and the informal city, by Ricardo Fort
“The apparent sensitivity of this measure to the poorest and homeless families, in reality mainly benefits the land trafficking mafias, validating their promises of formality and future services, based on which they charge a higher price and invested their profitability”. Ricardo Fort, senior researcher at GRADE, writes in El Comercio about the new law for the formalization of […]
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As economy, crime reboots, by Wilson Hernández
“Just as many sellers now seek to recover what was lost by changing their line of business or charging a premium, criminals act under a similar logic of reactivation that I summarize into three dimensions: recover what was lost (commit crimes more frequently), diversify their criminal activities (and not only theft of cell phones, but wallets, […]
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Is school dropout increasing this school year?, by Santiago Cueto
“The combination of risk factors increases the probability of dropping out. Thus, for example, students who live in poverty, who have young children and do not have a computer or cell phone, are at greater risk than those who only present one of these circumstances”. Santiago Cueto, Executive Director at GRADE and Country Director of Young Lives […]
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The other Pandemic: A look from the evidence, by Wilson Hernández
Peru is among the countries that lead the health and economic consequences of COVID-19. Both factors are linked to the increase in family violence. Why don’t we talk more about this other pandemic? Read the new article by Wilson Hernández, adjunct researcher at GRADE, in RPP Noticias with ideas and evidence in this regard.
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Anatomy of an economic debacle: the Peruvian labor market in 2020, by Miguel Jaramillo
“The current results are a consequence of both the epidemic and the public policy responses to contain it. They were not unpredictable, as we showed in a recent study. Unfortunately, the new information shows our estimates as conservative. Indeed, according to the latest National Household Survey, the labor market has suffered the most brutal blow […]
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Pandemic and rural employment, by Hugo Ñopo and Daniel Pajita
“To what is already worrying about the drop in employment that has recently spread, it must be added that paid employment has fallen even more. People are shifting to forms of subsistence employment, helping family members in their farms or businesses. the rural economy should be one of the issues to prioritize on the medium-term agenda.” […]
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Promoting informality, by Alvaro Espinoza
“A really sensible housing policy without consistency in the title of the precarious land, but rather generates alternatives of access to decent housing, or at least to the authorized lots, for the families who have to have in the land traffickers their only option viable”. Our adjunct researcher, Álvaro Espinoza, writes in El Comercio about the […]