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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La agricultura peruana en el contexto internacional
Perú, el problema agrario en debate: Seminario Permanente de Investigación Agraria, (4º: 1991 Ago. 20-23: Iquitos, Perú)1992 Javier Escobal
The purpose of this document is to present a first overview of how the international economic environment has affected the way the Peruvian agricultural sector operates. The first section presents in a very schematic way how international markets have historically linked the agricultural policies of developed and underdeveloped countries. Then, in the second section, the […]
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Gestión pública y distribución de ingresos: tres estudios de caso para la economía peruana
1992 Arturo Briceño, Alberto Pascó-Font, Javier Escobal, José Rodríguez
This paper attempts to show how the results of many of the redistributive efforts made during the first years of the APRA government in Peru were reversed in the following years. To this end, we analyze three of the most important mechanisms used by the government in the 1985-1990 period to affect income distribution: public […]
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El sector agropecuario peruano en 1992: evaluación y recomendaciones para su desarrollo
1992 Javier Escobal, Arturo Briceño
The document specifically proposes avoiding exceptions to the free price system, seeking more transparent mechanisms if certain crops are to be protected; making investments to reduce marketing costs; promoting the development of a rural financial system; and promoting the transfer of appropriate technologies, among other proposals.
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Una alternativa al actual sistema de sobretasas agrícolas en el Perú
1992 Javier Escobal, Arturo Briceño
This paper evaluates the results of Peru’s application of the system of import tariff surcharges on certain agricultural goods up to mid-1992. This evaluation reveals that, in its various versions with flexible and fixed surcharges, the system has been inefficient in achieving the objectives set out to justify its implementation. These objectives were, first, to […]
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Projects
News
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La actividad agropecuaria se desarrolla en su mayoría en minifundios
July 24, 2013 Rural development and agriculture
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MINAM, SEPIA, IEP y GRADE coorganizaron el Seminario Internacional “Sistemas de información para el monitoreo de la deforestación en la Amazonía peruana”
July 18, 2013 Rural development and agriculture, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict
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Seguridad Alimentaria Perú – Eduardo Zegarra
June 3, 2013 Rural development and agriculture, Health and nutrition
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Mesa redonda I Seguridad alimentaria: más allá de la comida chatarra
May 29, 2013 Rural development and agriculture, Health and nutrition
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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
