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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Minería y desarrollo sustentable
Minería y comunidades1999 Alberto Pascó-Font
El Seminario-Taller Minería y Comunidades, en 1998, tuvo como objetivo el intercambio de experiencias entre comunidades campesinas de diferentes zonas del Perú donde se desarrollan actividades minero metalúrgicas.
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The determinants of labor allocation between farm and off-farm activities in rural Peru
International Symposium Proceedings, (15º: 1998 Nov. 29-Dec. 4: Pretoria, South Africa)1999 Javier Escobal, Víctor Agreda, Jorge Agüero
This document shows that the importance for the Peruvian rural sector of activities that go beyond on/farm agricultural tasks has increased substantially, at least during the last decade.
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JournalBoletín de Opinión
El trabajo asalariado en las economías rurales del Perú
1998 Martin Valdivia
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Projects
News
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Eduardo Zegarra: “La economía es una de las disciplinas que pueden ayudar a una mejor gestión del agua”
October 3, 2014 Rural development and agriculture, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict, State reform and public institutions
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Debate Agrario 46: El mercado de semillas de maíz amarillo duro y los transgénicos
October 2, 2014 Rural development and agriculture, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict, Health and nutrition
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Lorena Alcázar, Juan José Díaz, Martín Valdivia y Javier Escobal participaron de seminario internacional sobre protección social, emprendimiento y activación del mercado laboral
September 12, 2014 Rural development and agriculture, Employment, productivity and innovation, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, State reform and public institutions
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Eduardo Zegarra: “Hay que partir de la premisa de que desarrollo no es igual a crecimiento”
July 30, 2014 Rural development and agriculture, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict
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New issue: Water economics: concepts and applications for better management by Eduardo Zegarra
July 23, 2014 Rural development and agriculture, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict
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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
