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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Combinando programas sociales con otras intervenciones
Combinando protección social con generación de oportunidades económicas: una evaluación del programa Haku Wiñay2016 Javier Escobal, Carmen Ponce
The authors present a discussion on the international experience of combining social programmes with productive interventions from a historical perspective. This chapter initiates reflection on the impact of the Haku Wiñay project in environments intervened by the Juntos programme, as it identifies consensus and shared challenges, based on national and international experience, in the search […]
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De la Amazonía su palma. Aportes a la gestión territorial en la región Loreto
2016 Roxana Barrantes, Elena Borasino, Manuel Glave, Miguel La Rosa,
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JournalEconomía y Sociedad
Impactos del programa Juntos en las decisiones productivas de los hogares rurales del Perú
2015 Eduardo Zegarra
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¿Es necesaria una Estrategia Nacional de Desarrollo Rural en el Perú? Aportes para el debate y propuesta de implementación
2015 Ricardo Fort, María Isabel Remy, Héctor Paredes
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JournalWorld Development
Explaining spatial diversity in Latin American rural development: structures, institutions, and coalitions
2015 Julio Berdegué, Javier Escobal, Anthony Bebbington
This article summarizes the results of a research program conducted in 11 Latin America countries, addressing two questions: (1) what factors determine territorial development dynamics that lead to economic growth, poverty reduction, and improved income distribution? (2) What can be done to stimulate this kind of territorial dynamics? We highlight five “bundles of factors” that […]
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Política económica y desarrollo del sistema financiero peruano, parte II: propuesta para una reforma y análisis de la nueva ley de bancos
1991
Se propone, sobre la problemática del sistema financiero, modificaciones en el entorno económico de las empresas financieras, y una participación activa del Estado en el control de las entidades crediticias.
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El sector agrícola peruano y sus interrelaciones con el entorno macroeconómico: un modelo econométrico
1991
Se plantea un modelo econométrico para cuantificar y simular el impacto de las políticas macroeconómicas sobre el desempeño agrícola de cultivos clasificados en importables, exportables y no transables.
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Política económica y desarrollo del sistema financiero peruano, parte I: diagnóstico
1991
La situación del sistema financiero peruano a principios de 1990. La principal problemática es la pérdida de importancia del sistema financiero en el proceso ahorro-inversión agudizado a partir de 1988.
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Política económica y rentabilidad en el sector minero: 1989-1990
1991
Se recogen los resultados de una investigación sobre política económica y rentabilidad en el sector minero a través de una metodología para la construcción de un índice de tipo de cambio real minero-indicador.
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Relaciones financieras internacionales y estabilización: una propuesta para el manejo de la deuda externa peruana
1991
Estrategia para el tratamiento de la deuda externa, sustentada en que la deuda peruana con el sistema financiero internacional es impagable, por lo que es imprescindible reducirla a un 50% de su valor nominal.
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JournalDebate agrario
Las variaciones del tipo de cambio real y el ingreso agrícola
1990Javier Escobal,
In order to correctly analyse price and output determination in the agricultural sector, three fundamental assumptions are used. The first is that each product responds to specific particularities, so it is necessary to correctly typify the main transmission mechanisms of each crop or group of crops. Secondly, it is essential to bear in mind that, […]
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JournalApuntes
Las alternativas de re-estructuración empresarial en la agricultura de la costa peruana
1987Martin Valdivia,
Se analiza tres de las alternativas de reestructuración empresarial de las cooperativas de la costa peruana, incidiendo en sus posibilidades para solucionar los problemas internos de esta modalidad asociativa.
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Ajuste macroeconómico y distribución del ingreso en el Perú 1985-1994
¿Cómo estamos?: análisis de la encuesta de niveles de vida1996Javier Escobal, Jorge Aguero,
Se muestra una caída en el gasto global de los hogares en el Perú, durante el período de crisis y ajuste, menor a lo que las cifras agregadas sugieren y la evolución de la distribución del gasto.
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Public administration and income distribution in Peru
Government spending and income distribution in Latin America1993Javier Escobal,
To provide a framework for evaluating the impact of programs carried out between 1985 and 1990, the first section describes the basic aspects of income distribution in Peru during that period. After describing the characteristics of poverty in Peru, this section summarizes the methods used in the 1985-1990 period to improve income distribution. The APRA […]
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La agricultura peruana en el contexto internacional
Perú, el problema agrario en debate: Seminario Permanente de Investigación Agraria, (4º: 1991 Ago. 20-23: Iquitos, Perú)1992Javier Escobal,
The purpose of this document is to present a first overview of how the international economic environment has affected the way the Peruvian agricultural sector operates. The first section presents in a very schematic way how international markets have historically linked the agricultural policies of developed and underdeveloped countries. Then, in the second section, the […]
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Projects
- A new scheme of agricultural water tariffsJanuary 2006
- Measuring trust in poor communitiesJanuary 2006
- Oportunidades económicas para la población indígena en el PerúDecember 2005
- Programa Innovativo para el acceso de Jóvenes Rurales a la Caficultura ColombianaDecember 2005
- Minería e Ingresos Rurales: entendiendo las bases microeconómicas del conflictoDecember 2005
- Identifying and characterizing the target population at the area of influence of the Desarrollo Rural de la Sierra projectOctober 2005
- La Agricultura Peruana frente al Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC): ¿Oportunidad o Maldición?October 2005
- Migración Lateral de Tecnologías en Economías Intensivas en Recursos HumanosAugust 2005
- Direcciones Regionales de Minería y Gobiernos RegionalesJuly 2005
- The National Agricultural Insurance Commission policy and the impact of covariate and idiosyncratic risks on Peruvian Coast farmersJuly 2005
News
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RPP Noticias: Eduardo Zegarra on the reduction of the entry of fertilizers to Peru
April 14, 2022 Rural development and agriculture
RPP Noticias highlighted the opinion of our Senior Researcher Eduardo Zegarra in the newspaper Gestión on the current shortage of fertilizers and its impact on the agricultural sector. “Per month the producers require at least 40,000 tons and they were only entering 5,000 tons per month and now it is zero, everything has stopped. Future […]
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TV Perú: Eduardo Zegarra’s on the VAT exemption for five foods
April 14, 2022 Rural development and agriculture
“It is a measure with problems. One is that the reduction will not necessarily go to the final consumer. It is also quite regressive, because it favors those with greater purchasing power. It is better to make a program of direct economic support to families in poverty or in vulnerability, more or less 50% of […]
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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Eduardo Zegarra: Two urgent actions against the food crisis
April 8, 2022 Rural development and agriculture
“The first (action) is to promote fertilizer imports, especially urea. There is already a deficit of more than 180,000 tons of fertilizers that could not be imported. If there is no more fertilizer in the coming weeks, Peruvian agriculture, especially commercial, is going to face a very serious crisis. Secondly, an immediate measure is needed […]
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Interview, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Mauricio Espinoza in TV Peru: “A quarter of a million Peruvians who would have returned from the city to the countryside in 2020 alone”
February 18, 2022 Rural development and agriculture
“Using different methods and sources of information, we arrived at a figure of a quarter of a million Peruvians who would have returned from the city to the countryside in 2020 alone. […] They are people who are in precarious situations and because of the restrictions of the pandemic were forced to return to their […]
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Mauricio Espinoza share his thoughts in Ojo Público on the crisis of milk producers in Peru
November 24, 2021 Rural development and agriculture
According to Mauricio Espinoza, Adjunct Researcher at GRADE, the main issue for the crisis of milk producers is the oligopsony of the livestock sector. A reportage from Ojo Público.
Events
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Ricardo Fort and Mauricio Espinoza shared their research findings included in the World Bank’s report on Peruvian agriculture
01/03/2018 8:30 am - 1:30 pm Hotel Belmond Miraflores Park, Salón Copacabana (Av. Malecón de la Reserva 1035, Miraflores) Rural development and agriculture
The World Bank released its report “Gaining Momentum in Peruvian agriculture”, of which our researchers Ricardo Fort and Mauricio Espinoza are collaborators. The results summarized in this report emerged from work undertaken to describe Peru’s agricultural sector, diagnose constraints that are negatively affecting the performance of Peruvian agriculture, and identify opportunities to improve productivity and enhance competitiveness in major agricultural […]
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Ricardo Fort joins the 2017 annual conference of the Global Research Consortium for Economic Structural Transformation (GReCEST)
14/12/2017 Etiopia Rural development and agriculture
Our senior researcher, Ricardo Fort, joins the 2017 annual conference of the Global Research Consortium for Economic Structural Transformation (GReCEST), in Ethiopia. GRADE, together with 30 other institutions around the world, is founding member. Ricardo was part of the panel on rural transformation and agricultural value chains in developing countries. GReCEST promotes a research agenda on […]
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Ricardo Fort shared lessons of Peru’s expansion in the exports of avocados for Kenya
23/11/2017 → 24/11/2017 Kenia Rural development and agriculture
Our senior researcher, Ricardo Fort, shared lessons for Kenya of Peru’s expansion in the exports of avocados. As one of the new competitors in the world market for avocados, our country is studied for comparative purposes. Ricardo joined knowledge sharing and dissemination workshops, held by the Partnership for Economic Policy, as part of the Productive […]
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GRADE researchers will join SEPIA XVII – Cajamarca 2017
29/08/2017 → 31/08/2017 8:00 am - 7:00 pm Cajamarca Rural development and agriculture
Several of our senior researchers and research assistants will be speakers, discussants and chairpersons at the biennial event of the Permanent Seminar for Agricultural Research SEPIA XVII, from August 29 to 31 , in Cajamarca. This edition will focus on three core topics: value chains and their consequences for rural development, inequalities and inequities in the rural world, and rural […]
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Presentaciones de investigadores de GRADE en el V Congreso Anual de la Asociación Peruana de Economía APE 2017
11/08/2017 → 12/08/2017 8:00 am - 1:00 pm Universidad de Lima 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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- 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