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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JournalPolicy in Focus
Combining social protection with economic opportunities in rural Peru: Haku Wiñay
2015 Javier Escobal, Carmen Ponce
The authors assess the impact of the Haku Wiñay programme (Mi chacra emprendedora), an intervention that provides productive technical assistance and a small asset transfer to rural households in the districts that are also covered by the Juntos programme, Peru’s conditional cash transfer (CCT). Haku Wiñay focuses on the development of productive and entrepreneurial skills […]
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Agricultura peruana: nuevas miradas desde el Censo Agropecuario
2015 Javier Escobal, Ricardo Fort, Eduardo Zegarra
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Estructura agraria y dinámica de pobreza rural en el Perú
2015 Javier Escobal, Carmen Armas
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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
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Opciones de política de precios agrícolas en el Perú: el caso de las bandas de precios
1990Javier Escobal,
En el presente documento de trabajo se analiza, en base a la experiencia peruana, las principales motivaciones para la intervención del estado en el proceso de formación de precios agrícolas.
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Comercio internacional de servicios: una reflexión sobre la balanza de servicios no financieros del Perú: período 1970-1988
1989
La problemática del comercio internacional de servicios desde tres perspectivas: la económica, la estadística y la comercial, y la evolución del comercio internacional de servicios durante los últimos 20 años.
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Precios, costos y desequilibrio monetario: la experiencia peruana 1981-1988
1989Javier Escobal,
Este documento analiza el proceso inflacionario en el Perú durante el período 1981-1988. Los resultados de este trabajo muestran la necesidad de profundizar el estudio de los distintos mecanismos que lo impulsan.
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Políticas de precios y subsidios agrícolas: impactos macroeconómico y sectorial: Perú 1985-1988
1989Javier Escobal,
Análisis de las políticas aplicadas por el gobierno aprista para reactivar el agro peruano, evaluando su viabilidad financiera de corto y mediano plazo y sus efectos sobre el propio sector agrario y la economía.
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Perspectivas a largo plazo de la acuicultura en el Perú
1989
Se presenta una visión general de las perspectivas de la acuicultura en el Perú, con énfasis en el aspecto económico, y se analiza la situación actual de la acuicultura en el mundo y sus perspectivas a largo plazo.
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Projects
News
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Eduardo Zegarra shares his opinion in AgroNoticias about food imports
November 29, 2020 Rural development and agriculture
“There is a total abandonment of the protection of national production. It is a trend of the last 30 years of successive governments, which have favored the importation of subsidized food and unprotected our agriculture, and that is passing bills. That is why we have very high agrarian poverty rates”. Eduardo Zegarra, senior researcher at […]
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Opinion Article, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Sagasti’s administration and the agrarian agenda in the pandemic, by Eduardo Zegarra
November 25, 2020 Rural development and agriculture
“It is no small thing that the new government administration must face in the midst of a pandemic. […] Peruvian agriculture deserves a change of course now, with a vision of development and attention to the needs of our more than two million family farmers For the good of the country, we hope and hope […]
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Eduardo Zegarra in Ideeleradio: “Among Peruvian farmers there is a feeling of helplessness”
November 3, 2020 Rural development and agriculture
“In the farmers there is a feeling of helplessness. As a result of the agricultural strike and some negotiating tables, this Government told them that it was going to start making policies in favor of family farming: propose a new Ministry of Agriculture with a vice-ministry of family farming, financing the National Family Farming Plan, […]
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Opinion Article, Media GRADE, Institutional News
Más allá de los transgénicos: tecnología e innovación para una nueva revolución verde en el Perú, por Ricardo Fort
October 16, 2020 Rural development and agriculture
Hoy el Congreso debate la moratoria al ingreso y producción de productos transgénicos. Si bien los organismos modificados han generado debate por la posibilidad de tener efectos negativos sobre la biodiversidad y la salud, así como por la concentración de patentes, existen otros avances tecnológicos que podrían mejorar los cultivos y las condiciones de los […]
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The failed and farcical start of FAE-Agro, now what?, by Eduardo Zegarra
October 8, 2020 Rural development and agriculture
“The Executive and Congress have the word (and the ability to act). Peruvian agriculture cannot continue to be mistreated in this way, with the sight and patience of all of us. It is not possible that we continue to pay our farmers like this, who with their effort and dedication feed us every day.” In the […]
Events
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GRADE on live, Publication Presentation
Book release: ‘Combinando protección social con generación de oportunidades económicas’
15/07/2016 5:30 pm Auditorio de GRADE (Av. Almirante Grau 915, Barranco) Rural development and agriculture
La Fundación Ford y el Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo han publicado el libro “Combinando protección social con generación de oportunidades económicas: una evaluación de los avances del programa Haku Wiñay”, editado por Javier Escobal y Carmen Ponce. Puede descargar el documento de política, basado en el libro, aquí. El libro provee evidencia rigurosa de […]
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Miguel Jaramillo, Ricardo Fort y Héctor Paredes will join the Red para el Estudio de la Economía Política de América Latina Third Annual Conference REPAL 2016
10/06/2016 → 11/06/2016 MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachussetts, Estados Unidos Rural development and agriculture
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Javier Escobal expuso sobre polarización y segregación en la distribución del ingreso en el Perú, en conferencia internacional sobre desigualdad territorial y desarrollo de Rimisp
25/01/2016 → 27/01/2016 8:00 am - 5:45 pm Puebla, México Rural development and agriculture
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GRADE celebra sus 35 años de vida institucional con la conferencia Avances recientes en la investigación y políticas para el desarrollo
25/11/2015 → 26/11/2015 3:30pm - 7:00 pm Auditorio de GRADE (Av. Almirante Grau 915, Barranco) Rural development and agriculture, Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict, State reform and public institutions, Health and nutrition
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Javier Escobal será expositor en conversatorio sobre políticas públicas y trabajo infantil agrícola, del Congreso de la República, FAO y Semilla
20/11/2015 3:00 pm - 5:30 pm Hemiciclo Raúl Porras Barrenechea, Congreso de la República Rural development and agriculture, Poverty and equality
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- 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
