Rural Development and Agriculture

GRADE researchers have a continuing interest in the state of agricultural and livestock production and the impacts of economic policy and reforms on the rural economy in Peru. Studies are carried out into forest economics, the impacts of public infrastructure on the rural economy, the main drivers of private investment, the dynamics of rural employment and migration, and rural financial systems.

Senior Researchers

Javier Escobal D`Angelo

PhD en Economic Development - Wageningen University

Javier holds a PhD in Economic Development from Wageningen University, in the Netherlands, and a Master’s degree from New York University, where he also carried out doctoral studies in Economics. He is currently a Senior Researcher at GRADE. He is also Co-Researcher in the Young Lives/Niños del Milenio longitudinal study, which follows more than 2000 children during the […]

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Ricardo Fort Meyer

PhD en Economic Development - Wageningen University

Ricardo Fort is an economist with a Master in Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a PhD in Economic Development from Wageningen University in the Netherlands. He currently works as a Senior Researcher at the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE), where he works on projects related to the economic development of […]

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Manuel Glave Testino

PhD en Economics - University of Illinois en Champaign

Manuel Glave has a PhD in Economics from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. He is a Senior Researcher at GRADE where he specialises in rural development, environmental economics and natural resources, and where he undertakes analysis of public policy relating to agriculture and the environment. He is a Senior Professor in the Department of […]

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Eduardo Zegarra Méndez

PhD en Agricultural and Applied Economics - University of Wisconsin

Eduardo Zegarra is an economist from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and has a PhD in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin, specializing in rural development and natural resource management. His dissertation explores the workings and failures of the water market in Chile. He has researched and published on a wide […]

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Adjunct Researchers

Elena Borasino Deustua

Master en - Wageningen University

Elena holds a master’s degree in International Development with mention in Development Economics from Wageningen University. Currently she is an Adjunct Researcher at GRADE.

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Mauricio Espinoza Hermoza

PhD candidate en - Wageningen University & Reseach

Mauricio is an Adjunct Researcher at GRADE. He holds a master’s degree in Agriculture, Environment and Regional Economics from Pennsylvania State University and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He is currently a PhD candidate in Economic Development at Wageningen University & Reseach in the Netherlands. His areas of […]

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External Affiliated Researchers

Carmen Ponce San Román

PhD en Economics - Pontifical Catholic University of Peru

Carmen Ponce is an External Affiliated Researcher at GRADE and is currently affiliated as Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean at York University (Toronto, Canada). She has a Ph.D. in Economics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and a MSc. In Economics from the University of Texas […]

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Estructura agraria y dinámica de pobreza rural en el Perú

2015 Javier Escobal, Carmen Armas

Using a provincial panel for the period between the agricultural censuses of 1994 and 2012, this study aims to clarify the sign of the relationship between agrarian structure and rural poverty dynamics in Peru. The descriptive results reveal that the provinces with significant reductions in rural poverty rates are those whose agricultural units had, at […]
Working paper

Collective land access rights for enhancing smallholder livelihoods

2015 Timothy Njagi, Lilian Kirimi, Gerardo Damonte, Manuel Glave

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Inversión pública y descentralización: sus efectos sobre la pobreza rural en la última década

2015 Ricardo Fort, Héctor Paredes

Based on the construction of rural public investment data series at the departmental level, based on official sources, this study analyzes the effects of its different categories on rural poverty for the Peruvian case during the 2004-2012 period, with emphasis on the role of subnational levels of government.
JournalWorld Development

Participatory democracy and effective policy: is there a link? Evidence from rural Peru

2015 Miguel Jaramillo, Glenn Daniel Wright

We examine the relationship between participatory democratic institutions and effective agricultural policy in rural Peruvian municipalities, using a unique quantitative dataset of 100 Peruvian municipalities at two points in time, allowing us to examine (a) bottom-up, grassroots participatory governance institutions, and (b) Peru’s top-down participatory budgeting reform implemented in all Peruvian sub-national governments in the […]
Working paper

Electrification and Educational Outcomes in Rural Peru

2015 Rosamaría Dasso, Fernando Fernandez, Hugo Ñopo

The authors study the effects of electrification on educational outcomes in Peru by taking advantage of a program that rapidly increased electricity coverage in rural areas. Using household survey panel data from 2007-2010, we document that: i) girls living in treated districts are more likely to be enrolled in school, and this effect is larger […]

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