Interview
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TV Perú: Eduardo Zegarra’s on the VAT exemption for five foods
“It is a measure with problems. One is that the reduction will not necessarily go to the final consumer. It is also quite regressive, because it favors those with greater purchasing power. It is better to make a program of direct economic support to families in poverty or in vulnerability, more or less 50% of […]
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Miguel Jaramillo in Bloomberg Línea: “The probability of a young person getting a formal job would be even more difficult”
“The probability of a young person getting a formal job, which is already ridiculously low, would be even more difficult. If the labor policy announcements are oriented towards the fact that it will cost more to fire, that temporary contracts are limited, how do you want firms hire more? If the government really wants to […]
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Eduardo Zegarra shares his thoughts in RPP Noticias about food items that would be exempt from VAT
“The most serious thing has not been to include the pheasant or some other elements that are quite ridiculous, but to extend the rule until December 31 and include a VAT and tax credit refund mechanism that could involve very complicated tax fraud problems” . Listen to the opinion of our Senior Researcher Eduardo Zegarra on […]
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Wilson Hernández in Latina: To ban motorcycles or not?
INEI data show that 40% of money, wallet or cell phone thefts are committed on a motorcycle. 30% of these robberies, in mototaxi. In some cities of Colombia they prohibited carrying a companion on a motorcycle or even the circulation of it. That study revealed that “in effect crime is reduced, but it is very […]
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Mauricio Espinoza in TV Peru: “A quarter of a million Peruvians who would have returned from the city to the countryside in 2020 alone”
“Using different methods and sources of information, we arrived at a figure of a quarter of a million Peruvians who would have returned from the city to the countryside in 2020 alone. […] They are people who are in precarious situations and because of the restrictions of the pandemic were forced to return to their […]
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University graduates and employment: Interview with Miguel Jaramillo in RPP’s Así somos
“The time for emergency employment has passed. A year ago, one could think of using temporary employment through public investment to generate more jobs. But what is needed now is that the engines of regular employment growth are put in place. Policies are needed to promote employment in the private sector. Unfortunately, none aim to […]
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Martín Benavides in RPP Noticias: “It is important that citizens understand that the process of regulating the quality of universities is imminently technical, not political”
“It is important that citizens understand that the process of regulating the quality of the universities is imminently technical, not political. The regulator has to ensure, beyond the interests of the people involved in the evaluation processes, that the university indicators must aligns with the expectations outlined in the licensing models. It has been shown that […]
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Martín Benavides: “The regulation system (of Sunedu) is one of those with the greatest autonomy, compared to other countries”
“If one makes a comparison between different countries, the regulatory system (of Sunedu) is one of those that has the greatest autonomy […] basically due to the way in which its Board of Directors is elected. The five members are elected by public competition. That is the greatest guarantee of impartiality. These members meet very […]
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Hugo Ñopo in La República about going back to school in 2022: We should take risks
We have lacked the conviction of knowing where the important thing is and this is in our children, in the future of the country, what we are doing to be a more prosperous nation. And when I say that I do not only mean economically. Of course, the economy matters, but there are things that […]
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In defense of the University Reform. Martín Benavides in La Mula
“Sunedu appears so that more students are not scammed as were those from universities with a denied license. There is evidence of professional underemployment, that these students were not able to recover their investments. Faced with this problem, the regulator appears to put things in place in such a way that there are no more […]