Publications of Los caminos de la exclusión: las transiciones hacia la vida adulta entre jóvenes urbanos vulnerables
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Los caminos de la exclusión: las transiciones hacia la vida adulta entre jóvenes urbanos vulnerables
This essay details the transitions to adulthood experienced by vulnerable urban youth. This is the most important transition towards productivity improvements, as young people should begin to apply the learning gained from their human capital investments in the labor market. However, one phenomenon limiting this realization is the high proportion of young ninis: neither studying […]
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Reformas institucionales en educación. El caso de los avances en la reforma de la universidad peruana (2018-2020)
This essay discusses the progress of university education reform. It is impossible to think about improving productivity in Peru without quality higher education. Benavides’ work, based on his experience at SUNEDU and MINEDU, is a fundamental piece in understanding how these reforms can reverse the stagnation of productivity.
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Educación superior, políticas inclusivas y discriminación en el mercado laboral
This essay addresses the issue of productivity from the angle of human capital formation. This study summarizes the advances in access to education and shows the pending task in higher education, and then discusses the role of inclusive policies with the example of Beca 18 in the context of a labor market marked by racial […]
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La vulnerabilidad de los hogares rurales en tiempos de COVID-19: en búsqueda de las lecciones clave para una política de inclusión financiera
This essay identifies lessons learned from financial inclusion policies to understand how to mitigate the negative effects faced by rural households. This important contribution is all the more relevant given the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, in which the health shock shows a strong correlate in the economy.
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¿Cómo el Estado contribuye a la segregación escolar?: una reflexión sobre las políticas de acceso y las decisiones familiares en la educación básica
This essay addresses one form of inequity: segregation. Contemporary approaches in education point to the importance of recognizing the diversity of school environments as a way of fostering respect and, above all, the inclusion of everyone in integrated environments. However, several recent studies show that, both internationally and in Peru, this diversity is not appreciated […]
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El Perú pendiente: ensayos para un desarrollo con bienestar
The essays that make up this book have been written to commemorate the first 40 years of GRADE’s institutional life, which coincides not only with the Bicentennial of Peru’s Independence, but also with the health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and its profound economic, social and political consequences. From different conceptual and methodological perspectives, […]
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El uso de las tecnologías para la generación de aprendizajes: desafíos para la formación inicial y en servicio del profesorado
In this essay, the authors focus on a specific topic, namely the Technological, Pedagogical and Disciplinary Knowledge (TPACK) model. The adoption of this model – or others – could help guide the long-awaited and much-needed reform of initial teacher education and professional development, which should be part of a broader strategy aimed at further strengthening […]
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Anotaciones sobre el derecho a la educación en el Perú, hoy: la urgencia por la indignación
The right to education recalls, first of all, the existence of international and national regulations that oblige the State to guarantee that all people have access to quality education, relevant to their personal development and that of society. The main actors linked to management during the last decades seem to have forgotten that education is […]
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Microcredit Impacts: Evidence from a Large-Scale Observational Study in Brazil
This paper studies the impact of microcredit in Brazil. We use a propensity score matching on original primary data on business and personal outcomes to compare veteran clients of BNDES—Brazil’s largest government-owned development bank—to a matched sample of more recent clients. Based on administrative data as well as data from a survey of 2107 clients […]
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Madres jóvenes en pandemia: una aproximación cualitativa a los retos del cuidado infantil
Este documento presenta las percepciones de mujeres que fueron madres en su juventud, y que forman parte de la muestra longitudinal del estudio cualitativo Niños del Milenio (NdM). Para ellas, la labor de cuidado se complejizó al asumir el acompañamiento educativo de sus hijos durante la pandemia del COVID-19. Las mujeres que fueron madres en […]
