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Tuesday, 9 de April de 2024
“Urban expansion should have been planned since the project began to be considered”. Alvaro Espinoza’s opinion on Chancay’s mega-port
“For them to start worrying about how the city is going to expand at this point is untimely. Urban expansion should have been planned since the project began to be considered”. Alvaro Espinoza, adjunct researcher at GRADE, writes in El Comercio about the housing demands due to the construction of the Chancay mega-port.
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Thursday, 24 de August de 2023
Espinoza and Fort’s study on urban expansion of the last 20 years in Peru is quoted in Somos Periodismo PUCP
“For those with scarce resources, the option is to invade a plot of land or buy it in the illegal market. According to a study conducted by GRADE, 93% of the country’s urban expansion is developed informally”. Somos Periodismo PUCP quoted the study by our researchers Alvaro Espinoza and Ricardo Fort on the internal dynamics […]
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Tuesday, 27 de June de 2023
Alvaro Espinoza: “What most modern cities are trying to do is to have more integrated cities”
“What most modern cities are trying to do is to have more integrated cities, where you have people from different socioeconomic sectors and walks of life living in a more mixed way. That makes the city more efficient and people are closer to where they study and where they work.” Our Adjunct Researcher Alvaro Espinoza […]
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Wednesday, 22 de February de 2023
Migraciones in pandemic. GRADE Conversa 17 featuring Mauricio Espinoza.
Peru has been one of the countries hardest hit by the pandemic in the world. Due to the health crisis, in March 2020 the government established a compulsory confinement that caused the paralysis of several economic sectors and a historic increase in the unemployment rate. Despite the vouchers provided, households that depended on the informal […]
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Friday, 9 de December de 2022
El impacto de la pandemia en el sistema de distribución de alimentos del Perú: los mercados de abastos minoristas
Durante el año 2020, la emergencia sanitaria del COVID-19 puso a prueba la efectividad y la capacidad de resiliencia del sistema de distribución de alimentos del Perú, en particular, en su pieza más importante: los mercados de abastos tradicionales, donde se concentra más de la mitad del gasto de los hogares en alimentos. El shock […]
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Monday, 29 de August de 2022
GRADE 40 years | Book Launch “El Perú pendiente: ensayos para un desarrollo con bienestar”
El Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE) organizes the launch of the book “El Perú pendiente: ensayos para un desarrollo con bienestar” (The Pending Peru: essays for a development with well-being), as part of the commemorative celebration for its forty years of institutional life. The book is a collection of essays that, from different conceptual and […]
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Thursday, 18 de August de 2022
Reorganizar el Perú: ciudades intermedias y desarrollo
Este ensayo aborda la discusión del “centralismo limeño” y el enorme desequilibrio de recursos y oportunidades entre la capital y el resto de las ciudades del país. La falta de planificación territorial y de políticas específicas que promuevan el potencial de cada región genera desigualdades e ineficiencias en el modelo de crecimiento actual y, por […]
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Wednesday, 17 de August de 2022
El Perú pendiente: ensayos para un desarrollo con bienestar
Los ensayos que conforman este libro han sido escritos a modo de conmemoración por los primeros 40 años de vida institucional de GRADE, que coinciden no solo con el Bicentenario de la Independencia del Perú, sino también con la crisis sanitaria por la pandemia del COVID-19 y sus profundas secuelas económicas, sociales y políticas. Desde […]
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Wednesday, 3 de August de 2022
Ricardo Fort in El Comercio: “You are fulfilling an expectation that land traffickers take advantage of”
“Every ten, fifteen years, sometimes five years, from the Congress of the Republic a law is approved that gives the State the possibility of formalizing informally occupied property. You are fulfilling an expectation that land traffickers take advantage of.” Our senior researcher Ricardo Fort shared his opinion in a recent episode of El Comercio’s #PasaEnLaCalle […]
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Friday, 29 de April de 2022
Alvaro Espinoza and Ricardo Fort were speakers at the Macro Regional Seminar “Sustainable Cities” of the Ministry of Housing
“In general, the municipalities must be strengthened, but the problem of informal expansion is deeper. Households have no alternative. What are they going to do if they do not occupy a territory informally? There is no social housing offer that these households can access. […] It is not a question of putting a lot of […]