Interview
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Hugo Ñopo: To insist with the ANR is to retake what we know does not work
“We did not get to this situation so ‘very poor’ of university quality overnight. It took several decades to get there. With the same coin, getting out of this is going to take several decades. With only five years of operation of the Sunedu is not going to reverse the situation of the system.” Hugo […]
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Martín Benavides: “Using young people to say that Sunedu has throw 200 thousand students out on the street is playing with their aspirations”
“To use young people to say that Sunedu has throw 200 thousand students out on the street is to play with their aspirations again. Of those young people who studied at the denied universities, 70% already have a continuity route. About 30 % continue in the universities, because care was taken that the decision is not […]
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Hugo Ñopo in TV Peru: A balance of the first 100 days of government
What has been achieved and what is pending in the economy in the first 100 days of government? According to Hugo Ñopo, Senior Researche at GRADE, although in the macro and in health we are doing well, in education, “it should be enormously alarming that today our students are not returning to the classroom in a majority number”. […]
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Wilson Hernández shares his opinion on the authorization of the Armed Forces to support the Police to fight crime
“Although the people of the Armed Forces can generate a sense of protection for us, they do not judge, they are not going to put anyone in jail, and, in reality, they are a very short-term solution to a problem that is structural in the Callao and other parts of the country”. Our adjunct researcher Wilson Hernández […]
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Hugo Ñopo on the effects of the pandemic: “Reengagement wages are now lower”
“During the pandemic, Peru was the country that lost the most jobs in Latin America. It is true that this job has been recovering, but not with the same quality. This is fundamentally reflected with wages: wages for reengagement in the labor market of Peruvians are being lower than we had before the pandemic”. Listen […]
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Social and labor protection policies, how are we doing? Hugo Ñopo’s opinion on TV Peru
“We have to think about a labor market that is much less dysfunctional than the one we have today. A market in which up to 75% of jobs are informal and that do not contribute to social security. We have to think about two points: the productivity of these jobs and the social protection network linked […]
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Miguel Jaramillo: “Under these conditions I do not see firms in Peru eager to invest and generate formal employment”
For Miguel Jaramillo, it is “totally insufficient” to seek the reactivation of employment only through temporary jobs. On the other hand, it considers that the range of access to vaccination for the youngest should be expanded. “It seems to me that a massive temporary employment program with small infrastructure works is now necessary, perhaps managed […]
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Hugo Ñopo analyzes the new Yanapay bonus in RPP Noticias
“(The bonus) it is a stimulus to demand, but it is necessary to complement a stimulus to production. The Government has spoken of the creation of a million jobs, but the number is not so relevant, but rather to ask what productivity those jobs are going to have. Who in the economy is the one […]
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Ricardo Fort: What agriculture expects from the next government. An interview by Agro Peru Informa
“The key is to help the country come out of the economic crisis as quickly as possible and that is done through the engine of public investment. It is necessary to continue with small projects that help the continuity in the demand for local labor in rural areas, cleaning roads and irrigation canals, construction of […]
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Hugo Ñopo joined a Perú Debate and RPP podcast on educational policies
Education is one of the most relevant matters of any goverment. In this chapter, Sandra Carrillo (Instituto de Estudios Peruanos) and Hugo Ñopo (GRADE) talk about the policy paper “Policies for an equitative and inclusive education”. A podcast from “Perú Debate 2021: proposals for a better goverment” Project and RPP Noticias.