State Reform and Public Institutions
GRADE researchers develop a series of studies and evaluations into the workings of factor markets, the justice system, the development of micro-enterprises, decision-making processes, and regional and local policy. Within this area analysis is also conducted into market structures, regulatory frameworks, pricing policy and policy relating to technological innovation.
Senior Researchers
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Lorena Alcázar Valdivia
PhD en Economics - Washington University
Lorena has a BA in Economics from the Pacific University in Peru, a Master’s Degree in Political and International Economy from the Kiel Institute of World Economics, and a PhD in Economics from Washington University. She is currently a Senior Researcher at the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE). Previously, she served as Vice-President […]
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Miguel Jaramillo Baanante
PhD en History - University of California
Miguel Jaramillo has a degree in Economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He completed his graduate studies in Economics and History at the University of California, where he received a PhD in History. His areas of interests are labor economics, social policy and institutional analysis. He is currently a Senior Researcher at GRADE. […]
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Máximo Torero Cullen (de licencia)
PhD en Economics - University of California, Los Angeles
Maximo received a PhD from the University of California at Los Angeles, Department of Economics and held a postdoctoral fellow position at the UCLA Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR). Currently, he is the Chief Economist of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Prior to joining FAO, he was the World Bank Group Executive Director for […]
Associated Researchers
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Juana Kuramoto Huamán (on leave)
PhD candidate en Innovation & Technology - Maastricht University
Juana Kuramoto received a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the University Carnegie Mellon in 1995. She is currently studying for a PhD in Policy Studies and Technological Change at the University of Maastricht and is an Associate Researcher at GRADE. Her fields of interest are technological innovation, scientific and technological policy, and mining. She […]
Adjunct Researchers
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Jessica Tapia Soriano
Master en - Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO)
Jessica holds a Master’s degree in Social Sciences with an orientation on Education from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) in Argentina. Currently she is an Adjunct Researcher at GRADE and the Pedagogical Coordinator of the Growing with Multigrade Rural Schools in Peru (CREER) Project.
Publications
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Does participatory budgeting have an effect on the quality of public services? The case of Peru’s water and sanitation sector
2013 Miguel Jaramillo, Lorena Alcazar
Since 2004 the government of Peru has implemented a process of participatory budgeting (PB), which is mandatory for every sub-national government. We analyze the link from PB to coverage and water service quality indicators. We find no statistically significant relationship between PB and our measures of coverage and service continuity, regardless of whether the outcome […]
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Does participatory budgeting have an effect on the quality of public services? The case of Peru’s water and sanitation sector
2013 Miguel Jaramillo, Lorena Alcazar
Since 2004 the government of Peru has implemented a process of participatory budgeting (PB), which is mandatory for every sub-national government. We analyze the link from PB to coverage and water service quality indicators. We find no statistically significant relationship between PB and our measures of coverage and service continuity, regardless of whether the outcome […]
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JournalPan American Journal of Public Health
Equity in health and health care in Peru, 2004-2008
2013 Margarita Petrera, Martin Valdivia, Eduardo Jiménez, Gisele Almeida
Este estudio evalúa si las recientes tendencias económicas positivas y las políticas de salud pro-pobres han logrado mayor equidad en la salud, y explora los factores claves que explican este cambio.
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El financiamiento del sistema educacional del Perú: elementos para el diseño de una fórmula per cápita en un contexto descentralizado
2012 Lorena Alcazar, Pilar Romaguera
El objetivo del estudio es proponer el diseño de un nuevo sistema para financiar la educación pública en el Perú enfocado en el suministro de recursos basado en la población atendida y con criterios compensatorios.
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JournalInternational Journal of Educational Development
The changing role of international cooperation in developing countries (as they develop): A case study of skills development policies in Peru.
2012 Miguel Jaramillo
A focus on the changes in the relationship between international cooperation and local actors in the skills development field in Peru as the country strengthened its financial position in the last two decades allows us to examine the role of the economic factor in these changes.
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Elementos para una reforma del sector público en el contexto de una economía de mercado
1996
Se propone elementos básicos para el diseño de cualquier estrategia de reforma del sector público en el Perú, abordando cuestiones de carácter económico, social, político y de organización institucional.
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Efectos de la reforma financiera sobre la banca comercial en el Perú: 1990-1995
1995,
Análisis del proceso de transición por que ha debido pasar el sistema financiero nacional, y en particular la banca comercial,a raíz del proceso de estabilización y reforma financiera implementados a partir de 1990.
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Mercado de capitales y eficiencia: una evaluación de las propiedades estadísticas del índice general bursatil de la Bolsa de Valores de Lima
1995, ,
Estudio de las principales propiedades estadísticas del Indice General Bursátil (IGB) de la Bolsa de Valores de Lima para el período 1986-1992 para detectar anomalías o patrones cíclicos en el IGB.
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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.
No se han encontrado publicaciones de State Reform and Public Institutions en la categoría Journal
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Integrating local and global knowledge, technology and production systems: challenges for technical cooperation
Capacity for development: new solutions to old problems2002Juana Kuramoto, ,
The paper concludes with some suggestions on the way technical cooperation could help in making better use of traditional knowledge and technologies.
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La viabilidad externa sostenibilidad de la balanza de pagos
Cuestión Perú: desarrollo socioeconómico en el mediano plazo1999,
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Calificación, salarios y distribución del ingreso en un contexto de ajuste estructural
Empleo y distribución del ingreso en América Latina : ¿hemos avanzado?.1997
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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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Educación pública y educación privada en el Perú: su impacto relativo sobre los ingresos. Evidencia basada en encuestas de hogares
¿Cómo estamos?: análisis de la encuesta de niveles de vida1996
El propósito de este ensayo es evaluar el impacto relativo del tipo de gestión de la institución educativa (pública o privada) sobre el ingreso de sus egresados en el Perú.
No se han encontrado publicaciones de State Reform and Public Institutions en la categoría Policy brief
No se han encontrado publicaciones de State Reform and Public Institutions en la categoría Book
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Projects
News
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To govern and to serve: a new book synthesizes lessons from a 30-country study of education, roads and water services
June 16, 2017 State reform and public institutions
The Global Development Network (GDN) and the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE) co-hosted the launch of the new book, ‘Improving Access and Quality of Public Services in Latin America: To Govern and To Serve’ at the GRADE offices in Barranco, Lima on Thursday the 15th of June, 2017. During her opening speech, […]
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The quality of public investment without land planning, by Alvaro Espinoza and Ricardo Fort
June 7, 2017 State reform and public institutions, Urbanization and sustainable cities
Why is urban public investment poorly prioritized, disjointed and fragmented? Read the article by our researchers, Álvaro Espinoza y Ricardo Fort, published in La Mula, with the main findings of their study on the quality of public investment without land planning in vulnerable neighborhoods in Lima.
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More than 57% of public works in vulnerable areas of Lima is not priority
April 7, 2017 State reform and public institutions, Urbanization and sustainable cities
The newspaper Gestión gathers the findings of our researchers Álvaro Espinoza and Ricardo Fort about the quality of public investment without territorial planning in vulnerable urban settlements of Lima. They found that around half of the public investment in highly vulnerable settlements is for public works of low priority and impact. This due to the investment that […]
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Water is not the problem, it is us, by Eduardo Zegarra
April 6, 2017 Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict, State reform and public institutions
Eduardo Zegarra, senior researcher at GRADE, proposes in Ojo Público to raise the National Water Authority (ANA) to a status similar to that of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru: “Without a strong authority at the central level, and without real water authorities, what remains is a weak eggshell and hesitant of state officials who have no […]
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Half of the investment in vulnerable neighbourhoods goes to low quality projects
April 6, 2017 State reform and public institutions, Urbanization and sustainable cities
El diario La República destaca los hallazgos del estudio de Álvaro Espinoza y Ricardo Fort sobre la calidad de la inversión pública urbana sin planificación territorial. Los autores identificaron que casi la mitad de la inversión destinada a la infraestructura en barrios vulnerables de Lima se destina a obras de baja prioridad, dejando de lado […]
Events
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Eduardo Zegarra discutirá el rol de la economía y derecho del medio ambiente frente a las problemáticas medio ambientales en seminario/taller IFEA / INTE-PUCP
12/11/2014 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm Campus de la PUCP (Av. Universitaria 1801, Lima) Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict, State reform and public institutions
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Javier Escobal será comentarista en seminario “El Estado como institución en América Latina y el Perú”, organizado por la Universidad Antonio Ruiz de Montoya y el IEP
12/11/2014 11:15 am - 1:15 pm Casa del IEP (Horacio Urteaga 694, Jesús María) Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality, State reform and public institutions
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Lorena Alcázar, Martín Benavides y Manuel Glave serán parte de los eventos públicos del XXV Seminario Anual CIES 2014
06/11/2014 9:30 am - 8:25 pm Hotel Sonesta (Pancho Fierro, El Olivar - San Isidro) 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
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GRADE y CIES co-organizan mesa sobre articulación de programas de alivio a la pobreza y desarrollo productivo, en el marco del XXV Seminario Anual CIES 2014
05/11/2014 8:20 am - 10:30 am Hotel Sonesta (Pancho Fierro, El Olivar - San Isidro) Rural development and agriculture, Employment, productivity and innovation, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality, State reform and public institutions
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[EN VIVO] Néstor Valdivia comentará ponencia en el III Seminario Internacional de Gestión Educativa Descentralizada, organizado por el Minedu
22/10/2014 → 23/10/2014 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Ministerio de Educación (Calle Del Comercio 193, San Borja) Education and learning, State reform and public institutions
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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
