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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Crecimiento agrícola, pobreza y desigualdad en el Perú rural
Boom agrícola, pobreza y desigualdad en el Perú rural2009 Eduardo Zegarra, Jorge Tuesta
Este estudio muestra que el "boom agrícola" ocurrido durante la última década en algunas áreas de la agricultura peruana ha tenido impactos limitados en la reducción de la pobreza rural.
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Desarrollo rural en la sierra: aportes para el debate
2009 Carolina Trivelli, Bruno Revesz, Javier Escobal
Una mirada amplia y plural acerca de la cuestión del desarrollo rural en la sierra peruana sobre la base del trabajo realizado en el marco de la Red de Investigación sobre Desarrollo Rural de la Sierra.
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JournalEconomía y sociedad
La agricultura peruana frente al TLC: ¿oportunidad o maldición?
2008 Javier Escobal
Este resumen del estudio ganador el concurso del CIES: “La agricultura peruana frente al TLC: ¿oportunidad o maldición?”, busca estimar el impacto del Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) con los EE.UU. sobre el sector agropecuario peruano. Sus simulaciones indican que en el corto plazo cabría esperar un impacto agregado positivo del TLC de entre US$ […]
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The constitution of political actors: peasant communities, mining and mobilization in Bolivian and Peruvian Andes
2008 Gerardo Damonte
The processes through which Andean communities have constituted themselves as political actors in the last decade: how they have appropriated and created spaces for mobilization while gaining unexpected political agency in t
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Outsiders?: The Changing Patterns of Exclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean
2008 Gustavo Márquez, Néstor Gandelman, Hugo Ñopo, Laura Ripani, Alberto Chong, Eduardo Lora
This report raises a number of fundamental questions about the multidimensional and interrelated nature of social exclusion and moves beyond the traditional emphasis on outcomes and groups to view exclusion as a process that results from societal traits that limit the functionings of the excluded. Using the tools of experimental economics, the report shows the […]
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Projects
News
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Se discutieron estrategias de apoyo a la pequeña agricultura peruana, en conversatorio de AGRORURAL, GRADE y el Banco Mundial
March 23, 2017 Rural development and agriculture
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GRADE among the most influential social policy think tanks worldwide, according to University of Pennsylvania
January 30, 2017 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
For the seventh consecutive year, GRADE has been distinguished among the Top Social Policy Think Tanks in the world —25th place—, according to 2016 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report. This study, conducted by the Think Tanks and Civil Society Program at the University of Pennsylvania, classified 6846 organizations around the world in global […]
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TTI booklet on how think tanks contribute to improve public health highlights a study undertook by Máximo Torero and Javier Escobal
November 25, 2016 Rural development and agriculture
The Think Tank Initiative, managed by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), has published a digital booklet on how policy reseach institutions contribute directly or indirectly to shaping improvements in public health in their countries. One of the studies highlighted, led by our researchers Javier Escobal and Máximo Torero, revealed the benefits of delivering public infraestructure packages in rural households in Peru, a […]
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Eduardo Zegarra shared research findings on Juntos program at MIDIS-CIES Ministerial Dialogue
August 29, 2016 Rural development and agriculture, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes
Our senior researcher, Eduardo Zegarra, shared the main findings of his study on the effects of Juntos on rural households’ productive decisions in Peru, on Friday, August 26th, as part of the discussion of four studies sponsored by the Consorcio de Investigación Económica y Social (CIES) with policy recommendations for the Peruvian Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion […]
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Agrarian poverty and income shock in Puno: an ENAHO analysis, by Eduardo Zegarra
July 25, 2016 Rural development and agriculture, Poverty and equality
Our senior researcher Eduardo Zegarra analyzes data from the National Household Survey and suggests that a negative income shock (and demand) in urban areas of Puno, with adverse effects on agricultural income, explain the increase of poverty in this region between 2013-2015. Read the full article (in Spanish) here.
Events
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Investigadores de GRADE participarán en el seminario bianual SEPIA
10/08/2009 → 13/09/2009 Cusco, Perú Rural development and agriculture, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict
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Miguel Jaramillo presentará estudio en la Universidad de California, Berkeley
18/06/2009 → 20/06/2009 Universidad de California, Berkeley Rural development and agriculture
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Eduardo Zegarra participará en el Diálogo por la Concertación “La Seguridad Alimentaria y el Desarrollo Rural”
04/06/2009 Colegio Médico del Perú (Av. 28 de julio, 776) Rural development and agriculture, Health and nutrition
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Martín Valdivia participará como expositor en la 43 conferencia anual de la Asociación Económica Canadiense
29/05/2009 → 31/05/2009 Universidad de Toronto Rural development and agriculture
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Martín Valdivia presentará estudio en la Conferencia sobre Desarrollo del Consorcio de Universidades del Norte y Este de los Estados Unidos
12/11/2008 Universidad de Boston Rural development and agriculture
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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
