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
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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 […]
Adjunct Researchers
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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 […]
External Affiliated Researchers
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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 […]
Publications
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Comercialización agrícola en el Perú
1994 Javier Escobal
The elimination of market imperfections has been proposed as an alternative to the discretionary management of relative prices, as far as support policy for the agricultural sector is concerned. The increase in productivity and the reduction in unit costs that this type of policy would generate would improve agricultural profitability without raising product prices and […]
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Sesgos en la medición de la inflación en contextos inflacionarios: el caso peruano
1994 Javier Escobal, Marco Castillo
The possible overvaluation of the Consumer Price Index of Metropolitan Lima has been a problem that has been worrying academics, decision makers and public opinion in general for some time now. Many are unaware that the overestimation of the Gross Domestic Product per capita and of the exchange rate lag, or the underestimation of the […]
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Las diferencias en tasas de interés como determinantes del tipo de cambio libre
1993 Armando Cáceres, Javier Nagamine
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Public administration and income distribution in Peru
Government spending and income distribution in Latin America1993 Arturo Briceño, Alberto Pasco-Font, Javier Escobal, José Rodríguez
To provide a framework for evaluating the impact of programs carried out between 1985 and 1990, the first section describes the basic aspects of income distribution in Peru during that period. After describing the characteristics of poverty in Peru, this section summarizes the methods used in the 1985-1990 period to improve income distribution. The APRA […]
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JournalPretextos
El sector agrario ante el proceso de liberalización: posibilidades y limitaciones en una economía de mercado
1993 Javier Escobal, Martin Valdivia
This article is divided into three sections. The first section summarizes the main agricultural policies implemented since the beginning of the liberalization program. The second section describes the performance of the agricultural sector during 1992, showing the worrisome situation of the sector, regardless of the indicator chosen. Then, in the same section, the conceptual framework […]
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Projects
News
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Javier Escobal fue comentarista en la presentación de estudio sobre la efectividad del programa Juntos en contextos indígenas
November 13, 2013 Rural development and agriculture, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict
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GRADE: La sierra opta por ganadería antes que por cultivos tradicionales
November 12, 2013 Rural development and agriculture
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Columna de opinión de Javier Escobal explica el indicador de pobreza multidimensional
November 9, 2013 Rural development and agriculture, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes
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Javier Escobal opina sobre el uso político de las críticas y recomendaciones a los programas sociales
November 8, 2013 Rural development and agriculture, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes
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Hoy se celebra el Día Mundial de la Alimentación. Perú: cuestionan la calidad de alimentos en el mercado interno
October 16, 2013 Rural development and agriculture
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Events
- Education and Learning
- Employment, Productivity and Innovation
- Rural Development and Agriculture
- Ethnicity, Gender and Citizenship
- Methodologies for Research and Evaluation of Policy and Programmes
- Poverty and Equity
- Natural Resources, Extractive Industries and Social Conflict
- State Reform and Public Institutions
- Health and Nutrition
- Urbanization and Sustainable Cities
