News
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The labor market during the last five years, by Miguel Jaramillo
“The post-pandemic recovery in employment allowed for a return to pre-2020 levels, but it was driven mainly by the informal sector rather than the generation of quality jobs”. In light of the debate among technical teams during the presidential runoff, our Senior Researcher Miguel Jaramillo writes in El Comercio about what the evidence indicates regarding […]
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Carmela Chávez in La República: Alarming figures on Beca 18 students who fail the same grade
Why do high-achieving students get into college and still fail their courses? In this article from La República, Carmela Chávez reflects on the challenges faced by #Beca18 students once they enter higher education. According to our research associate, mentoring and academic support matter.
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GRADE joins Southern Voice on Global Development, Southern Voice’s flagship initiative
Along with 14 other research centers in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean, GRADE is participating in Southern Voice on Global Development, a new phase of the Southern Voice network’s flagship initiative, officially launched today April 30th. At a time when global cooperation is under pressure and progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals is […]
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GRADE, CISEPA PUCP and CGIAR are joining forces to develop an inventory of agricultural innovations in Peru
GRADE, CISEPA PUCP, and CGIAR are joining forces to develop the SPIA Country-Level Stocktaking Exercise in Peru, a project aimed at conducting an in-depth analysis of the agricultural innovations implemented in the country over the past 20 years. The project, led by researchers Isabel Guerrero, Angelo Cozzubo, and Manuel Glave, employs a mixed-methods approach and […]
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Jacobs Foundation’s LEVANTE opens 2026 Call for Proposals
Eight new research sites, including GRADE, have recently joined the LEVANTE initiative. From Switzerland to Peru, Ghana to Australia, they are joining this global network of researchers generating insights into the factors shaping children’s development and educational outcomes across diverse contexts. The Foundation is particularly calling for research projects that focus on collecting in-depth data […]
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Néstor Valdivia in a TV Perú reportage on the history of censuses in Peru
“Mestizaje has been understood as a form of denial of Indigenous ethnicity, and I believe this is mistaken. Beginning in the 1940s and 1950s, the ‘de-Indigenization’ of the Indigenous population did not imply a denial of their identity, but rather a different way of constructing it.” Our research associate Néstor Valdivia participated in a recent […]
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Día Mundial de la Tierra 2026: recursos de acceso libre
Impulsar una gestión ambiental y socialmente sostenible de los recursos naturales es uno de los mayores retos que afrontan los países de la región y en particular el Perú. En el Día de la Tierra, compartimos algunos recursos de acceso libre, incluidos investigaciones recientes, eventos y videos cortos, enfocados en abordar, desde perspectivas territoriales e […]
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GRADE forma parte de la Cohorte 2026 de la red LEVANTE de la Fundación Jacobs
Estamos felices de participar en la Cohorte 2026 de la red LEVANTE de la Fundación Jacobs, junto con siete organizaciones de todos los continentes. LEVANTE es la Red de Intercambio sobre la Variabilidad de los Aprendizajes. Reúne a centros que investigan los procesos cognitivos y su relación con el aprendizaje y el desarrollo de los […]
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First priority: building a competent state, by Miguel Jaramillo
“On the one hand, we do not have political parties, but rather groups with purely electoral purposes […] On the other hand, we have a state with very limited capacity to design and implement policies.” Ahead of the 2026 elections, Miguel Jaramillo, Senior Researcher at GRADE, writes about the importance of the state’s institutional capacity […]
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2026 Elections: Santiago Cueto joins a dialogue to transform regular basic education in Peru
Our Senior Researcher Santiago Cueto, together with other experts committed to education in the country, participated in a dialogue process that sought consensus on what the next government and Congress can do to transform regular basic education in Peru. “Despite the diversity of our roles and perspectives, we chose to participate in a dialogue process […]
