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Evidence Week 2019 | GRADE wins the Premio PODER 2019 for the best research on economic policy
The Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE) has won the Premio PODER (PODER Award) 2019 for the best research on economic policy with the study “The unprotective effects of the employment protection. The impact of the 2001 labor contract reform”, by Miguel Jaramillo, Julio Almonacid and Luciana de la Flor. The award was received by […]
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Alessandra Hidalgo wins at the 2019 MIDIS Culminated Research Contest
We congratulate our Research Assistant, Alessandra Hidalgo, who has won of the three prizes at the MIDIS 2019 Culminated Research Contest, on the sidelines of the Evidence Week 2019. Alessandra achieved this prize with the study, carried out together with Karina Márquez, a former GRADE’s Research Assistant, “What difference can parents make? Parental structure at home and […]
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Innovation in education? Of course, whenever convenient, by Santiago Cueto
According to Santiago Cueto, although educational innovation is important, it is a means and not an end. Furthermore, creativity can always be fueled by existing information, in particular that which comes from research, and about which there are multiple sources to consult. Read the new article by our Executive Director for Fundación Telefónica Perú.
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Synergies between Education and Employment: who is being left behind and what can be done about it?
Research on the effects of access to education and on employment conditions is abundant. However, the effects of basic education of quality on labour opportunities remain an elusive black box in many countries of the Global South. Particularly, in regard to the disadvantaged groups. As part of the UN Global Goals Week 2019, Southern Voice, […]
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Why educate in Peru today?, by Santiago Cueto
Why educate in Peru today? Our executive director Santiago Cueto writes about how education should help us overcome the main challenges facing the country: little respect for institutions, violence, corruption, inclusion and low productivity. The article has been published by Fundación Telefónica Perú
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Southern Voice: Precariousness still affects education and employment in Peru and Bolivia
On the sidelines of the 2019 annual congress of the Peruvian Association of Economics (APE), Southern Voice hosted a panel on the precariousness of education and employment in Peru and Bolivia. Our senior researcher Lorena Alcázar, Werner Hernani, researcher at Fundación ARU and economist Hugo Ñopo discussed their findings. In this article we share key takeaways from the discussion. Precariousness […]
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Why is it difficult to interview young fathers about fatherhood, and why is it important that we keep trying?, by Francis Bravo
How can we include more male voices in the discussion about fatherhood and its challenges? Francis Bravo, Assistant Researcher at GRADE, shares his experience in two qualitative studies with a group of young people from the sample of the Young Lives Study in Peru. Read the full article, originally published in Niños del Milenio and in […]
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CLOSED VACANCY. GRADE long course: Impact Evaluation of Development Programs
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Who cares?, by Verónica Villarán
Who are the adolescents today in Peru? How they live? What dreams, what plans, what projects do they have for their future? How should we attend and educate this age range? These are questions addressed by Verónica Villaran, Adjunct Researcher at GRADE, from the voices of youth from different regions of the country. Read some of the stories she gathered […]
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Oswaldo Molina highlights Alan Sanchez and Marta Favara findings on the impact of JEC on teenage pregnancy
An op-ed by Oswaldo Molina, director of the Master in Economics at the Universidad del Pacífico, in El Comercio, highlights the findings of Alan Sanchez, Senior Researcher at GRADE and Young Lives Peru, and Marta Favara, Researcher at the University of Oxford, on the impact of the Peruvian extended school-day reform (Jornada Escolar Completa, JEC) on several […]
