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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Promoting strategic linkages between the farm/non-farm sectors: the peruvian case
Promoting farm/non-farm linkages for rural development: case studies from Africa and Latin America2002 Javier Escobal, Víctor Agreda
The central objective of this chapter is to analyse the linkages between comercial agriculture and agro-industry in two of the most important agricultural valleys of Peru.
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Un sistema de indicadores líderes del nivel de actividad para la economía peruana
2002 Javier Escobal, Javier Torres
Presentación de metodología para construir un Indicador Líder Compuesto del Producto Bruto Interno (PBI). Las ponderaciones han sido escogidas asegurando que minimicen el error cuadrático medio de la predicción.
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Reformas estructurales y bienestar: una mirada al Perú de los noventa
2001 Alberto Pascó-Font
Se discute la experiencias de la última década y se da una mirada crítica a algunos aspectos de lo acontecido con las reformas económicas y sociales de primera generación durante los noventas.
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Liberalización de la balanza de pagos: efectos sobre el crecimiento, el empleo y desigualdad y pobreza: el caso de Perú
Liberalización, desigualdad y pobreza: América Latina y el Caribe en los 902001 Juan Jose Diaz, Maximo Torero
En primer lugar se hace un recuento de los los cambios en el contexto macroeconómico y de las reformas estructurales, y otras reformas que se dieron simultáneamente para entender el cambio en la estructura productiva.
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Apuntes sobre el teniente gobernador
Autoridades en espacio locales: una mirada desde la antropología2000 Gerardo Damonte
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Projects
News
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Platos vacíos: informe sobre transgénicos en el Perú, de la revista Poder, recoge opinión de Eduardo Zegarra
April 25, 2015 Rural development and agriculture, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict, State reform and public institutions, Health and nutrition
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La reducción de la pobreza rural es mayor que la urbana, según el INEI
April 24, 2015 Rural development and agriculture, Poverty and equality, State reform and public institutions
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Más dinamismo, más reducción de pobreza
April 24, 2015 Rural development and agriculture, Poverty and equality, State reform and public institutions
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Meta de bajar la pobreza a 20% al 2016 será “muy complicada” si el PBI no crece 4%
April 24, 2015 Rural development and agriculture, Poverty and equality, State reform and public institutions
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Javier Escobal: “Los programas sociales no son tan importantes para reducir la pobreza total”
April 24, 2015 Rural development and agriculture, Poverty and equality, State reform and public institutions
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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
