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Home internet access and child development: Evidence from Peru
A new column by Ofer Malamud, Associate Professor at Northwestern University, Santiago Cueto, Executive Director at GRADE, Julián Cristia, Lead Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank, and Diether W. Beuermann, Senior Economist at the Inter-American Development Bank, summarizes the experimental evidence of the impact of home internet access in child outcomes in Peru, reported in […]
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They denounced, but were murdered, by GRADE’s consultant Wilson Hernández
“International evidence shows that the most committed and sensitized police officers are those who best serve women who report violence from their partners”. Our consultant Wilson Hernández shares three key ideas in El Comercio so that previous delations to intimate femicide can be useful: better prepare the police to protect female informers, draw on technological solutions, and apply the risk assessment to those denounced.
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Carmen Ponce has been appointed as visiting researcher at the York University Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean
We congratulate our associate researcher, Carmen Ponce, who has been appointed as visiting researcher at the York University’s Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (Cerlac), in Toronto, Canada. During her residency, Carmen will present her study “Household strategies in the context of climate change and spatially widespread family networks: the key role of non-farm income” at the Canadian […]
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Group Sofia’s fifth anniversary: a systematization of its outcomes, achievements, challenges and lessons
Group Sofía celebrates its fifth anniversary with a systematization document of its creation process, more tangible outcomes, more outstanding achievements and challenges, and lessons learned. The group aims to share their experience to contribute to the formation of similar networks in different specialties, as well as to motivate other researchers to contribute to counteracting gender […]
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Meeting the Left Behind Youth in Peru, by Lorena Alcazar
Young people in Peru face tremendous challenges in both qualities of education and access to decent work. In this Southern Voice article, our Senior Researcher Lorena Alcázar shares relevant findings on the conditions of those left behind in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in our country and how to help them.
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GRADE joins a new research project on investigating the changes in productivity of the Humboldt Current
The international kick-off meeting of the project “Social-Ecological Tipping Points of the Northern Humboldt Current Upwelling System, Economic Repercussions and Governance Strategies” was held in Lima from March 19 to 21. The event gathered the Peruvian partners Instituto del Mar del Peru (IMARPE), the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE) and 35 stakeholders. Our […]
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María Balarin: “La respuesta que la ley plantea es promover una mayor transparencia de parte de los proveedores de servicios educativos privados hacia los padres de familia”. Pensiones de colegios particulares en debate
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Start of classes. Santiago Cueto: ‘We must look for the balanced development of the people’
‘We must look for the balanced development of the people. If some children receive a lot of pressure from their families and they are very good in the academic field, but they fail to develop social and emotional skills, one could not call that a successful education’. Listen to the interview with our executive director, […]
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Rural poverty exacerbates in Peru and Latin America
Nuestro investigador principal, Eduardo Zegarra, fue entrevistado en la revista belga Sos Faim sobre pobreza rural en el Perú. A continuación, compartimos la reproducción traducida al español de la entrevista completa: El último informe de las Naciones Unidas sobre la pobreza rural en América Latina y el Caribe señala que los países de estas regiones enfrentan […]
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Miguel Jaramillo: Employment growth would be expected from 2% to 2.5%
“It is reasonable to expect an employment growth rate between 2% and 2.5% for this year. How much of that will be formal employment? I do not think there will be much change in the structure, unless it really advances rapidly in fighting some of the issues that generate additional costs in the labor market”. Miguel […]
