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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Trampas territoriales de pobreza, desigualdad y baja movilidad social: los casos de Chile, México y Perú
2017 Anthony Bebbington, Javier Escobal, Isidro Soloaga, Andrés Tomaselli
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¿Saliendo del agro? Empleo no agropecuario, conectividad y dinamismo rural en el Perú (1994-2012)
2016 Héctor Paredes
El estudio analiza las condiciones económicas y geográficas que determinan la relación entre la dotación de activos públicos en conectividad rural (caminos y telecomunicaciones) y los cambios observados en el empleo no agropecuario que ha caracterizado al dinamismo rural de las últimas dos décadas. Se analiza el impacto de cuatro condiciones: variables de contexto regional […]
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Los efectos de la migración interna entre el 2007 y el 2014 en el Perú: un análisis a nivel provincial
2016 Javier Escobal, Úrsula Aldana
El propósito del presente estudio es estimar el impacto de los flujos migratorios en el Perú, sobre las zonas de origen y las zonas de destino de los migrantes. Se analiza el efecto sobre cuatro indicadores: el perfil etáreo de la población, la recepción de remesas, el nivel educativo promedio y, finalmente el valor del […]
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The Evolution of Collective Land Tenure Regimes in Pastoralist Societies: Lessons From Andean Countries
2016 Gerardo Damonte, Manuel Glave, Sandra Rodríguez, Andrea Ramos
Much has been said about the importance of pastoralist livelihoods for the effective and sustainable use of the world’s drylands which cover approximately 40% of total land surface. Globally, drylands provide livelihoods to some two billion people, 90% of whom live in developing countries (UN, 2011). Pastoralism is the principle production system exercised in drylands […]
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Towards an inclusive and sustainable development in Latin America: dialogue between research and public policies
2016
Esta publicación es resultado del seminario internacional Hacia un Desarrollo Inclusivo y Sostenible en América Latina: Diálogos entre Investigación y Políticas Públicas, organizado por el Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE) y el Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP), el 25 y 26 de junio de 2014. Representa un esfuerzo de recopilación de lo más relevante y valioso […]
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Una estrategia para la negociación de la deuda externa peruana
1995
Análisis de los antecedentes y la situación actual de la deuda peruana, con el fin de sugerir lineamientos estratégicos para las negociaciones del gobierno peruano con los acreedores extranjeros.
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Sesgos en la medición de la inflación en contextos inflacionarios: el caso peruano
1994Javier Escobal,
Este documento parte de la teoría de los índices del costo de vida para determinar la manera más adecuada de agregar los precios para obtener un indicador de inflación a través del IPC elaborado por el INEI.
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Efectos de la política monetaria sobre el mercado de acciones
1993, ,
Este trabajo investiga la relación de corto plazo entre la política monetaria y los retornos bursátiles (tanto para acciones industriales como mineras) para el caso peruano durante el periodo 1984-1991.
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Un indicador del nivel de actividad de la economía peruana en base a un modelo de variables latentes
1993Javier Escobal, ,
En el documento se plantea la construcción de un indicador del nivel de actividad económica para el Perú a partir de un conjunto de series de tiempo de fácil acceso (series de producción, empleo, ingresos, etc).
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Journal Information economics and policy
Disponibilidad a pagar por el servicio de telefonía rural en Bangladesh y Perú
2003Maximo Torero, , ,
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JournalBasis brief
Meeting the needs of the rural poor through post-reform financial markets
2003Javier Escobal, , , ,
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JournalInternational Review of Education
Determinant of school performance among Quechua children in the Peruvian Andes
1999, Santiago Cueto,
In the rural Andes of Peru, primary school inefficiency ranks higher than in the rest of the country, with a nearly 50 per cent rate of first grade repetition.
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JournalAmerican ethnologist
Alguito para ganar (a little something to earn): profits and losses in peasant economies
1999Manuel Glave, ,
We explore various ways in which small-scale peasants in the highlands of Peru conceptualize the everyday concept of profit in the contemporary context of neoliberalism.
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Adverse geography and differences in welfare in Perú
Spatial inequality and development2005Javier Escobal, Maximo Torero,
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Small farmers economic organizations: producer associations and agricultural development in Peru
Economic liberalization and evolution of rural agricultural sector in Peru2003Manuel Glave, Ricardo Fort,
The main objective of this study is to identify which factors increase (or decrease) the competitiveness of small farmers in the Peruvian Agriculture.
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New institutions for agricultural and rural development in Latin America and the Caribbean
Current and emerging issues for economic analysis and policy research2003Javier Escobal,
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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 America2002Javier Escobal, ,
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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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 902001Juan 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.
No se han encontrado publicaciones de Rural Development and Agriculture en la categoría Policy brief
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Imaginemos un Perú mejor
1989
Artículos periodísticos escritos por el autor entre 1985 y 1988 para promover la diseminación de un enfoque de largo plazo en el pensamiento de quienes diseñan o ejecutan políticas de desarrollo.
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No se han encontrado publicaciones de Rural Development and Agriculture en la categoría Mimeo
Projects
- Sustainable earth and water management technologies in JequetepequeAugust 2008 - November 2009
- Conditioning factors and heterogeneity of impacts of the improvements on the rural roads of PeruJuly 2008
- Analysis of the Potential of the Agricultural and Livestock and Rural Development Sector in Dominican RepublicJune 2008
- Study on public expenditure in agriculture in Belize, Dominican Republic and PeruMay 2008
- Sub-regional Irrigation ProgramApril 2008 - June 2008
- Baseline of the Sub-sectorial Irrigations Program (PSI)January 2008
- Study on Public Expenditure in Agriculture in GuatemalaJanuary 2008
- ¿Cómo lograr que la titulación de predios sirva para dinamizar la actividad agropecuaria en el sector rural?September 2007
- Propuesta de diseño de la evaluación de impacto y monitoreo del proyecto “Tierras y Desarrollo Agrario” (Pro-Tierras-DA)July 2007
- Municipios rurales y servicios para la agricultura en el PerúJune 2007
News
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Eduardo Zegarra in Exitosa: “Peru is one of the countries most affected by this food crisis”
May 20, 2022 Rural development and agriculture
“Peru is one of the most vulnerable countries facing a food crisis. We are an importer of basic foods, such as cereals and oilseeds, which are rising a lot in price internationally, and we are also total importers of chemical fertilizers, which they are scarce worldwide. There is enormous concern about this, because if we […]
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Eduardo Zegarra on TV Peru: “We are passing the bill for many years of not thinking in terms of food security”
May 20, 2022 Rural development and agriculture
“If the problem of the lack of fertilizers persists and if the measures that are being taken are not effective, because there is concern that this emergency decree has little effectiveness and efficiency, we would be facing a complicated situation. We have expensive imported food and national food that would also begin to be scarce. […]
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Javier Escobal shares his opinion on the impact of the shortage of fertilizers in Peruvian agriculture
May 9, 2022 Rural development and agriculture
For Javier Escobal, Senior Researcher at GRADE, subsistence farmers, among whom the use of fertilizers is widespread, are particularly vulnerable to the increase in the price of these inputs, since they cannot transfer the higher cost to consumers. In addition, since they would have to buy the food that they would stop producing, they would […]
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Effect of the agrarian labor regime on the remuneration of unskilled workers and workers, by Eduardo Zegarra
May 5, 2022 Rural development and agriculture
“The extreme flexibility of the contracts (temporary terms), as well as the very low capacity for unionization and collective bargaining of wages, mean much lower incomes for workers than those they could receive if they enjoyed the same rights as their peers in the regime. general or civil construction regime”. We share the article by […]
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Eduardo Zegarra in Peru 21: risks that could aggravate the food crisis
May 2, 2022 Rural development and agriculture
According to Eduardo Zegarra, Senior Researcher at GRADE, we are already in a food crisis due to rising food prices, but this could worsen due to the shortage of fertilizers: “Family farming supplies 60% of food and having two important sources of food – which are imported products and those produced (in Peru) – at risk, […]
Events
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Javier Escobal was a speaker at the FAO Online Conference “Reducing rural poverty: A transformative agenda post COVID-19”,
20/08/2020 11:00 am Evento virtual Rural development and agriculture
“Closing the digital gap, which helps the provision of other services such as telemedicine or greater financial inclusion, will allow governments to better position themselves to provide services or cash transfers to households. It can also open opportunities for income generation in rural territories, in sectors linked to telework that could appear in the post-pandemic […]
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Ricardo Fort will present at the 2030 Series FAO Online Conference “Infrastructure, private investment and rural development”
14/07/2020 11:00 am Evento online Rural development and agriculture
Today at 11:00 AM in Peru, watch on live the Ninth 2030 Series Online Conference “Infrastructure, Private Investment and Rural Development”, held by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Presenting: Carlos Pomareda, Chair of the CONDESAN Board of Directors, and Ricardo Fort, Senior Researcher at GRADE. Moderator: Carolina Trivelli, IEP Principal Investigator. REGISTRATION AND DOWNLOAD […]
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Eduardo Zegarra presented his study on the agro-export boom in CIES Parliamentary Academic Dialogue
10/07/2020 Evento virtual Rural development and agriculture
Regarding the regulatory gaps that unprotect women in the agro-export sector, our senior researcher, Eduardo Zegarra, said: “It is still a labor force that has a relatively lower remuneration than men.” This and other findings of his study “Agro-export boom and diversification in Peru” were shared with the Foreign Trade Commission of the Congress of the […]
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Evidence Week 2019 | Agro-exporting in Peru: which products and firms survive and why?
15/11/2019 9:00 am - 11:00 am Auditorio de GRADE (Av. Almirante Grau 915, Barranco) Rural development and agriculture
In the last twenty years, Peru has enjoyed a remarkable agricultural export boom. We export more than US $ 3 billion of fruits and vegetables and more than US $ 6 billion if we consider all agricultural products. However, we still know very little about the characteristics of products and companies that have shown a […]
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GRADE’s researchers at the 30th Annual CIES Research Seminar
04/11/2019 → 07/11/2019 8:00 am - 6:00 pm Hotel José Antonio Deluxe (Calle Bellavista 133, Miraflores) Rural development and agriculture, Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes
Several of our researchers will be presenters and panelists at the 30th Annual Research Seminar of the Consortium of Economic and Social Research (CIES), on November 4-7 . The annual event will address the general topic “Towards the sustainability of development in Peru”. In addition, in this issue, GRADE is coorganizing the research session on youth employment and gender. AGENDA You may […]
- 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
