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GRADEPersonalResearchersSenior ResearchersJavier Escobal

Javier Escobal D`Angelo

Senior Researcher
PhD in Economic Development - Wageningen University
jescobal@grade.org.pe

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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 first twenty years of their lives and which is also carried out in parallel in Ethiopia, India and Vietnam.

His research has focused on rural development, poverty, agricultural policies and the sectoral impact of macroeconomic policy. On these topics he has published more than a dozen books and more than 40 academic articles in specialized journals. His research has won several international awards such as the Prize for the best doctoral thesis in International Development awarded by the World Bank and the Amsterdam Institute for International Development; the Award for Excellence in Development Research awarded by the Global Development Network and the Guggenhaim Fellowship.

In the public sector, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Central Reserve Bank, member of the Fiscal Council, an autonomous commission attached to the Ministry of Economy and Finance, member of the Advisory Commission of the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion, member of the Advisory Commission for Poverty Estimation of INEI, and on two occasions member of the Board of Directors of the Lima Wholesale Markets Firm.