Álvaro Espinoza Benza
Adjunct Researcher
Master in Political Science - New School of Social Research
aespinoza@grade.org.pe
Álvaro graduated in Economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from the New School of Social Research in New York. He is an Adjunct Researcher at GRADE. His work has focused on public management, institutional economics and urban development.
Álvaro has a broad experience as a consultant and researcher on institutional and agricultural issues undertook for various national and international bodies. He has held several senior management positions in public institutions linked to rural development and urban policies. Currently, he conducts projects linked to this last issue, with a particular stress in the development of urban peripheries.
Publications
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Projects
Media
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Alvaro Espinoza in La Mula: “Between 2000 and 2018, Lima has grown almost 40% in area, only horizontally”
January 17, 2020
“Between 2000 and 2018, Lima has grown almost 40% in area, only horizontally. The vast majority of that growth has been messy, without following a plan. Moreover, 90% of that growth are informal neighborhoods”. Our Adjunct Researcher, Alvaro Espinoza, talked with Javier Torres, of La Mula, about the challenges and possibilities for the city. Mariana […]
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Property tax: innovate for better governing, by Ricardo Fort and Alvaro Espinoza
February 14, 2019 Employment, productivity and innovation
Our researchers Ricardo Fort and Álvaro Espinoza shared a concrete and low cost proposal in order to improve the municipal governance and to increase the property tax collection using modern technology. Read the full text in Gestión Newspaper.
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Álvaro Espinoza: “In Lima almost all the flood damage was caused by the illegal occupation of land”
July 20, 2017 Urbanization and sustainable cities
“In Lima almost all the flood damage was caused by the illegal occupation of land”, said our Adjunct Researcher, Álvaro Espinoza, in an article published by the British newspaper The Guardian on the latest natural disasters and the high risk of housing building in vulnerable areas of our capital city.
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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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