Ricardo Fort Meyer
Senior Researcher
PhD in Economic Development - Wageningen University
rfort@grade.org.pe
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 rural areas as well as marginal urban neighborhoods in Peru and in several other countries.
In recent years he has been Visiting Researcher at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands and The University of Chicago in the United States. He is the author of several books and academic articles on these subjects and has worked as a consultant for institutions such as the World Bank, the United Nations, FAO, the Inter-American Development Bank, IFAD, among others.
Publications
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JournalSustainability
Evaluating the efficacy of social innovation programming at advancing rural development in the context of exogenous shocks
2024 Mauricio Espinoza, Rodrigo Rivarola, Ricardo Fort, Joshua Fisher
In this paper, we design and deploy an experimental approach to evaluate the efficacy of a social innovation initiative implemented in rural communities situated in the highlands of Peru, which confronted the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic in the midst of its implementation. Using three rounds of information collected before, during, and after participation, […]
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Chapter in BookStories of Change: Covid-19 Responses for Equity
Building safer and more sustainable food systems in Peru
2023 Ricardo Fort, Karine Gatellier
The Covid-19 pandemic has aggravated the food insecurity situation of people living in Latin American cities. In Peru, the most vulnerable are facing great difficulties in accessing food, while food market vendors are also struggling to keep their businesses afloat. Covid-19 Responses for Equity (CORE) partner Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE) – a […]
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Resilience in the time of a pandemic: developing public policies for ollas comunes in Peru
2023 Ricardo Fort, Lorena Alcazar
The coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has created economic, social, and food security crises in many countries throughout the world. Faced with growing hunger in Peru, and the government’s delayed and inadequate reaction, the most important response came from the citizens themselves, particularly the women, in the form of thousands of social care initiatives known as ollas […]
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Estrategias comunitarias contra el hambre durante la pandemia: experiencias y propuestas desde los casos de Perú, Uruguay y Chile
2023 Lorena Alcazar, Ricardo Fort, Ignacia Fernández, Fernando Távara
The objective of this paper is to analyze the resurgence of community initiatives in response to hunger during the pandemic in the Latin American region. It looks in particular at how they are emerging or growing, what their needs are and what role governments have played in response to them, focusing on the cases of […]
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El impacto de la pandemia en el sistema de distribución de alimentos del Perú: los mercados de abastos minoristas
2022 Álvaro Espinoza, Ricardo Fort, Mauricio Espinoza
Durante el año 2020, la emergencia sanitaria del COVID-19 puso a prueba la efectividad y la capacidad de resiliencia del sistema de distribución de alimentos del Perú, en particular, en su pieza más importante: los mercados de abastos tradicionales, donde se concentra más de la mitad del gasto de los hogares en alimentos. El shock […]
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COVID-19 y las migraciones de la ciudad al campo en el Perú: identificación de amenazas y oportunidades para el uso sostenible del capital natural
2022 Ricardo Fort, Mauricio Espinoza, Álvaro Espinoza
El Perú es uno de los países más fuertemente golpeados por la pandemia del COVID-19 en el mundo. El confinamiento nacional obligatorio que empezó a regir a mediados de marzo de 2020 y fue ampliado en varias oportunidades hasta finales de junio del mismo año, trajo como consecuencia la paralización de diversos sectores económicos y […]
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Mapeo y tipología de la expansión urbana en el Perú
2020 Álvaro Espinoza, Ricardo Fort
Este documento resume los principales hallazgos de un estudio encargado por la Asociación de Desarrolladores Inmobiliarios (ADI) y ejecutado por el Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo (GRADE) durante el año 2019, cuyo objetivo es cuantificar y comprender la dinámica interna del crecimiento urbano del Perú en las últimas dos décadas. El ámbito del estudio […]
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The impact of social ties and third-party enforcement on collective action and growth: micro evidence from Peru
2019 Keefer Philip, Mauricio Espinoza, Álvaro Espinoza, Ricardo Fort
Exploiting a unique empirical setting, 1,000 vendors in 90 traditional food markets in Lima, researchers document that historic social ties among market founders are associated, decades later, with stricter formal (third party) enforcement of market rules, more collective action, and the greater resilience of market sales to the entry of modern supermarkets. Markets with stronger […]
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Infraestructura rural mínima para prosperar
2019 Ricardo Fort
This paper aims to discuss the main elements of a proposal for minimum or indispensable coverage of rural infrastructure to contribute to the prosperity of rural households in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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JournalSustainability
Evaluating the efficacy of social innovation programming at advancing rural development in the context of exogenous shocks
2024 Mauricio Espinoza, Rodrigo Rivarola, Ricardo Fort, Joshua Fisher
In this paper, we design and deploy an experimental approach to evaluate the efficacy of a social innovation initiative implemented in rural communities situated in the highlands of Peru, which confronted the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic in the midst of its implementation. Using three rounds of information collected before, during, and after participation, […]
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Resilience in the time of a pandemic: developing public policies for ollas comunes in Peru
2023 Ricardo Fort, Lorena Alcazar
The coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic has created economic, social, and food security crises in many countries throughout the world. Faced with growing hunger in Peru, and the government’s delayed and inadequate reaction, the most important response came from the citizens themselves, particularly the women, in the form of thousands of social care initiatives known as ollas […]
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JournalJournal of Development Economics
Land reform and human capital development: Evidence from Peru
2020 Michael Albertus, Mauricio Espinoza, Ricardo Fort
The early establishment and persistence of landholding inequality is linked to poor long-run development outcomes. One crucial channel runs through human capital: large landowners historically underinvested in public goods such as schools, restricted workers and their children from to attending school, and extracted surplus from laborers that could have been invested in human capital. By […]
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JournalAgriculture and Human Values
Does certification improve hired labour conditions and wageworker conditions at banana plantations?
2019 Fédes van Rijn, Ricardo Fort, Ruerd Ruben, Tinka Koster, Gonne Beekman
Certification of banana plantations is widely used as a device for protecting and improving socio-economic conditions of wageworkers, including their incomes, working conditions and—increasingly—voice [related to labour relations and workplace representation]. However, to date, evidence about the effectiveness of certification in these domains is scarce. Researchers collected detailed field data on (1) economic benefits for […]
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JournalEconomía y Sociedad
El impacto de la inversión pública en el desarrollo regional
2015 Ricardo Fort
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Building safer and more sustainable food systems in Peru
Stories of Change: Covid-19 Responses for Equity2023 Ricardo Fort, Karine Gatellier
The Covid-19 pandemic has aggravated the food insecurity situation of people living in Latin American cities. In Peru, the most vulnerable are facing great difficulties in accessing food, while food market vendors are also struggling to keep their businesses afloat. Covid-19 Responses for Equity (CORE) partner Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE) – a […]
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Reorganizar el Perú: ciudades intermedias y desarrollo
El Perú pendiente: ensayos para un desarrollo con bienestar2022 Álvaro Espinoza, Ricardo Fort, Mauricio Espinoza
This essay addresses the discussion of “Lima centralism” and the enormous imbalance of resources and opportunities between the capital and the rest of the country’s cities. The lack of territorial planning and specific policies that promote the potential of each region generates inequalities and inefficiencies in the current growth model and, therefore, it is essential […]
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En los margenes del boom agroexportador: artículación de los pequeños productores a las cadenas de valor globales
Sepia XVII. Perú: el problema agrario en debate2018 Héctor Paredes, Ricardo Fort
Los importantes cambios en los sistemas agroalimentarios mundiales, en las últimas dos décadas, han planteado una serie de retos, conceptuales y empíricos, para la formulación de una mirada integral a las cadenas de valor agrícolas globales (CVA) y, en particular, respecto a las condiciones de entrada de pequeños productores y los impactos económicos que genera […]
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Productividad de la agricultura peruana
Tomando impulso en la agricultura peruana2018 Ricardo Fort, Mauricio Espinoza
¿Qué tan productiva es la agricultura peruana? ¿Qué ha estado impulsando el crecimiento de la productividad en el sector en los últimos años? ¿Son sostenibles las fuentes tradicionales de crecimiento de la productividad? ¿Existen oportunidades para acelerar el crecimiento de la productividad en el futuro con nuevas fuentes de crecimiento? ¿Y las respuestas a estas […]
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Dovetailing fair trade and organic agro-certifications in Latin America
Fair Trade and Organic Agriculture: A Winning Combination?2018 Ricardo Fort, Ruerd Ruben
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Resilience in a pandemic: the case of community pots in Lima, Peru
2022 Lorena Alcazar, Ricardo Fort
Due to the food crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, community pots have made a comeback in Lima’s vulnerable areas, as an alternative mechanism to fight hunger. They have become a symbol of resilience and solidarity, as well as spaces where women can support each other and become empowered. In this context, community pots have […]
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Resiliencia en tiempos de pandemia: el caso de las ollas comunes en Lima, Perú
2022 Lorena Alcazar, Ricardo Fort
A raíz de la crisis alimentaria generada por el COVID-19, las ollas comunes han resurgido en las zonas más vulnerables de Lima como una alternativa para enfrentar el hambre. Se han convertido en un símbolo de resiliencia y solidaridad, a la vez que han propiciado la creación de espacios de acompañamiento y empoderamiento femenino. En […]
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Embedding Community Voice into Smart City Spatial Planning
2022 Jaideep Gupte, Louise Clark, Debjani Ghosh, Sarath Babu, Priyanka Mehra, Asif Raza, Vaibhav Sharma, Yogesh Kumar, Alpana Mishra, Kabir Shrivastava, Pranjal Kulkarni, Ricardo Fort, Álvaro Espinoza, Adrián Chuquipiondo, Jeetendra Rathore, Divya Pillai
Public participation in spatial planning is a vital means to successful policymaking and can be enhanced by combining geospatial methods with participatory learning and action. Based on a pilot study in Bhopal, India involving urban authorities, civil society organisations and experts in an informal settlement during Covid-19 lockdowns, the authors find that the obstacles to […]
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Planning informality: Promoting a market of planned informal settlements
2018 Álvaro Espinoza, Ricardo Fort
About 30% of the population in developing countries live in informal urban settlements lacking adequate basic services, public spaces and urban equipment. The origin to most of these shortcomings can be traced to a single feature: the urban layout design.
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Planificar la informalidad: herramientas para el desarrollo de mercados de “urbanizaciones informales planificadas”
2018 Álvaro Espinoza, Ricardo Fort
Alrededor de un tercio de la población peruana —más de 10 millones de personas— viven en asentamientos urbanos marginales ocupados generalmente de manera informal. Según el Ministerio de Vivienda, estos asentamientos no tienen un diseño adecuado de la trama urbana y se caracterizan por carecer, total o parcialmente, de servicios básicos, espacios públicos y equipamiento […]
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El Perú pendiente: ensayos para un desarrollo con bienestar
2022 Maria Balarin, Santiago Cueto, Ricardo Fort
The essays that make up this book have been written to commemorate the first 40 years of GRADE’s institutional life, which coincides not only with the Bicentennial of Peru’s Independence, but also with the health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and its profound economic, social and political consequences. From different conceptual and methodological perspectives, […]
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Sepia XVII. Perú: el problema agrario en debate
2018 Ricardo Fort, Mariana Varese, Carlos de los Ríos
TEMA I. CADENAS DE VALOR Y SUS CONSECUENCIAS PARA EL DESARROLLO RURAL PONENCIA DE BALANCE En los márgenes del boom agroexportador: articulación de los pequeños productores a las cadenas de valor globales Héctor Paredes y Ricardo Fort ARTÍCULOS DE INVESTIGACIÓN Cadenas de valor agrícolas y su impacto sobre los ingresos de medianos y pequeños productores: evidencia […]
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Inversión sin planificación. La calidad de la inversión pública en los barrios vulnerables de Lima
2017 Álvaro Espinoza, Ricardo Fort
La mitad de la población urbana del Perú vive en barrios urbanos vulnerables (BUV) ocupados informalmente, expuestos a múltiples riesgos, y deficitarios en servicios básicos e infraestructura. Este libro busca medir la calidad de la inversión pública en BUV mediante tres ejercicios analíticos. En primer lugar, caracteriza los tipos de espacios urbanos en el país […]
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Otro urbanismo para Lima: más allá del mejoramiento de barrios
2017 Jitka Molnárová, Luis Rodríguez Rivero, Álvaro Espinoza, Ricardo Fort
Conjunto de artículos que analizan, desde varios puntos de vista y disciplinas, los distintos aspectos involucrados en el desarrollo del área de proyectos urbano integrales del programa metropolitano Barrio Mío. Su principal aporte es mostrar y analizar el enfoque y la metodología concreta y completa con la que se abordó —y se podría abordar— el urbanismo en […]
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¿Agroindustria en la Amazonía? Posibilidades para el desarrollo inclusivo y sostenible de la palma aceitera en el Perú
2016 Ricardo Fort, Elena Borasino
En la discusión sobre las posibilidades de desarrollo del cultivo agroindustrial de la palma aceitera en la Amazonía peruana se plasman varios de los principales debates modernos sobre modelos de desarrollo rural ambientalmente sostenibles y socioeconómicamente inclusivos. La historia de la expansión de este sector y los diversos problemas que hoy enfrenta reflejan, además, muchas […]
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Hacia una nueva política de vivienda en el Perú: problemas y posibilidades
2020 Ricardo Fort, Álvaro Espinoza
En las siguientes páginas se describe el problema general de la producción de vivienda en el Perú, y se plantean, de manera muy concreta y sucinta, varias posibles medidas de política que pueden ayudar a incrementar substantivamente la producción de vivienda—especialmente vivienda de interés social (VIS)—en el corto y mediano plazo.
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Communities and Spontaneous Urban Planning: A Toolkit for Urban Expansion. Project Summary
2018 Álvaro Espinoza, Ricardo Fort
Most urbanization processes around developing countries are happening either by rural-urban migration, as it happened in Lima 25 years ago, or by high paced vegetative population growth among second and third-generation migrants, as it is happening now in Lima—and either form exerts pressure on relatively weak public institutions. State-sponsored urban planning is often absent, so […]
Projects
- Formulation of the Regional Research AgendaNovember 2022
- Characterization and quantification of the process of self-construction of housing in Peru.October 2022
- Vertical structure of local tax administration in Latin America – A case study of PeruJuly 2021
- Capacity Building for Smart Data and Inclusive Cities in IndiaApril 2021
- Study for the improvement of tax collection in the Provincial Municipality of Huancayo through the Preparation of a Fiscal Cadastre Linked to the Municipal Tax Collection SystemOctober 2020
- Measurement, learning and social measurement to generate behavioral change, as part of Antamina’s social strategyOctober 2020
- COVID-19 and migration from the city to the countryside in Peru: Identification of threats and opportunities for the sustainable use of natural capitalOctober 2020
- Partial formulation of Development and Innovation Strategies (EDIR) in the regions of Ayacucho, Apurimac and CuscoSeptember 2020
- A rural development strategy in Latin AmericaAugust 2020
- Rebuilding to improve: opportunities from the crisis for sustainable and inclusive improvements in food security, labor markets and social protectionJuly 2020
Media
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How can we move towards inclusive rural development? Ricardo Fort via CIES
September 3, 2023 Rural development and agriculture
“Instead of looking at what is currently there and what the problems are to improve the type of production, we look at the potential of the territories in terms of their resources along with the connectivity of those spaces to the main markets in Peru and abroad.” Our senior researcher Ricardo Fort shares a proposal […]
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Espinoza and Fort’s study on urban expansion of the last 20 years in Peru is quoted in Somos Periodismo PUCP
August 24, 2023 Urbanization and sustainable cities
“For those with scarce resources, the option is to invade a plot of land or buy it in the illegal market. According to a study conducted by GRADE, 93% of the country’s urban expansion is developed informally”. Somos Periodismo PUCP quoted the study by our researchers Alvaro Espinoza and Ricardo Fort on the internal dynamics […]
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The right to a decent housing. An Infobae article cited study by Alvaro Espinoza and Ricardo Fort
August 22, 2023
“Annually, 127 thousand new homes are built, 84 thousand of which are built informally; therefore, there is still a housing deficit that is growing every year”. Lawyer Giancarlo Vega highlights the findings of the study by our researchers Alvaro Espinoza and Ricardo Fort, “Towards a new housing policy in Peru: problems and possibilities (“Hacia una […]
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Podcast CIES: Pathways to inclusive rural development in Peru, with Ricardo Fort
March 21, 2023 Rural development and agriculture
“We need a much broader view of the country and the territory to understand how we can create other opportunities in rural areas, in intermediate cities or in larger cities so that people who are currently trying to survive in rural areas have more possibilities to get ahead”. Ricardo Fort, senior researcher at GRADE, spoke […]
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The Reform Agrarian versus children, by Roxana Barrantes and Ricardo Fort
February 22, 2023 Rural development and agriculture, Education and learning, Poverty and equality
“We found was a negative and persistent effect over time of the Agrarian Reform on children’s years of schooling in higher-affected districts, due, in good measure, to the particular type of reform that was implemented in Peru.” In their new article for Jugo de Caigua, Roxana Barrantes (IEP) and Ricardo Fort (GRADE) write about the […]
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The Reform Agrarian versus children, by Roxana Barrantes and Ricardo Fort
February 22, 2023 Rural development and agriculture, Education and learning, Poverty and equality
“We found was a negative and persistent effect over time of the Agrarian Reform on children’s years of schooling in higher-affected districts, due, in good measure, to the particular type of reform that was implemented in Peru.” In their new article for Jugo de Caigua, Roxana Barrantes (IEP) and Ricardo Fort (GRADE) write about the […]
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The Agrarian Reform versus the Shining Path, by Roxana Barrantes and Ricardo Fort
February 15, 2023 Poverty and equality
“This research gives suport to those who usually affirm that, if it had not been for the Agrarian Reform, the Shining Path would have been able to come to power. However, it is also possible to give respond to other economic and social effects, where the results are not encouraging”. New op-ed by Roxana Barrantes (IEP) and Ricardo Fort (GRADE) via Jugo de Caigua. […]
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Building safer and more sustainable food systems in Peru, by Karine Gatellier (IDS) and Ricardo Fort
July 22, 2022 Employment, productivity and innovation, Poverty and equality
The pandemic has aggravated the food insecurity situation of people. In Peru, the most vulnerable are facing great difficulties in accessing food, while food market vendors are also struggling to keep their businesses afloat. Read this Covid-19 Responses for Equity (CORE) story of change to know how the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE) […]
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State populism and the informal city, by Ricardo Fort
September 18, 2020 Urbanization and sustainable cities
“The apparent sensitivity of this measure to the poorest and homeless families, in reality mainly benefits the land trafficking mafias, validating their promises of formality and future services, based on which they charge a higher price and invested their profitability”. Ricardo Fort, senior researcher at GRADE, writes in El Comercio about the new law for the formalization of […]
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Opinion Article, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Propuesta de medidas para reducir aglomeraciones y contagios en los mercados de abastos
April 29, 2020
Por: Ricardo Fort y Alvaro Espinoza. Hace casi un mes, nuestro artículo sobre focos de contagio en Lima advirtió e identificó los principales mercados que podían convertirse en focos de contagio del COVID-19. Hoy sabemos que más del 20% de los comerciantes en el Mercado Caqueta están infectados con el virus. Aquí presentamos una lista de […]
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Ricardo Fort in El Comercio: “You are fulfilling an expectation that land traffickers take advantage of”
August 3, 2022 Urbanization and sustainable cities
“Every ten, fifteen years, sometimes five years, from the Congress of the Republic a law is approved that gives the State the possibility of formalizing informally occupied property. You are fulfilling an expectation that land traffickers take advantage of.” Our senior researcher Ricardo Fort shared his opinion in a recent episode of El Comercio’s #PasaEnLaCalle […]
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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Migrate to survive. Ojo Público’s reportage gathers GRADE findings
December 12, 2021 Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict
Between March and December 2020, approximately 248.311 Peruvians returned to their rural areas of origin from the cities. According to the study from our researchers Ricardo Fort, Mauricio Espinoza, and Alvaro Espinoza for the Inter-American Development Bank, this is the first mass return process in the history of Peru. Read OjoPúblico’s reportage. DOWNLOAD THE STUDY here.
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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Ricardo Fort’s opinion in América Economía on the economic challenges of the next Peruvian goverment
June 10, 2021 Poverty and equality
“There is very little criteria for territorial planning and distribution of public investment. The investment system that dates back to the 90s looks at project by project and not the whole. They carry out isolated projects that are not connected to each other. There is no connection between the sectors. and between the levels of government. […]
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El Comercio highlights findings by Alvaro Espinoza and Ricardo Fort on the consequences of a law that fosters property titles to irregularly occupied land
October 19, 2020
Today, Monday 19, is the deadline for President Martín Vizcarra to observe the law that expands the titling of irregularly occupied land. Regarding the dire consequences of this measure, El Comercio highlights the recent findings of our researchers Alvaro Espinoza and Ricardo Fort: the 43 largest cities in Peru have expanded their urban land by […]
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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Ricardo Fort in El Espectador: Why did Peru become the second country with the most cases of COVID-19 in Latin America?
May 25, 2020 Urbanization and sustainable cities
Why is Peru the second country with the most cases of COVID-19 in Latin America? According to Ricardo Fort, crowds in the food markets were one of the key reasons. “In addition, people who visited these places returned to households with high levels of overcrowding and with a strong presence of seniors,” explained GRADE’s senior researcher, […]
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How can we move towards inclusive rural development? Ricardo Fort via CIES
September 3, 2023 Rural development and agriculture
“Instead of looking at what is currently there and what the problems are to improve the type of production, we look at the potential of the territories in terms of their resources along with the connectivity of those spaces to the main markets in Peru and abroad.” Our senior researcher Ricardo Fort shares a proposal […]
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Podcast CIES: Pathways to inclusive rural development in Peru, with Ricardo Fort
March 21, 2023 Rural development and agriculture
“We need a much broader view of the country and the territory to understand how we can create other opportunities in rural areas, in intermediate cities or in larger cities so that people who are currently trying to survive in rural areas have more possibilities to get ahead”. Ricardo Fort, senior researcher at GRADE, spoke […]
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Ricardo Fort: What agriculture expects from the next government. An interview by Agro Peru Informa
July 1, 2021 Rural development and agriculture
“The key is to help the country come out of the economic crisis as quickly as possible and that is done through the engine of public investment. It is necessary to continue with small projects that help the continuity in the demand for local labor in rural areas, cleaning roads and irrigation canals, construction of […]
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Interview, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Ricardo Fort in RPP Noticias: new strategies to avoid crowds in food markets and bus stops
May 26, 2020 Urbanization and sustainable cities
“What we have been proposing is to target a strategy that is territorially focused, articulated in the territory, and that has local participation.” Ricardo Fort, senior researcher at GRADE, talked with Mónica Delta of RPP Noticias about the relevance of taking into account the heterogeneity of the different areas of the country while implementing new efforts to avoid the crowds […]
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Interview, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Ricardo Fort in Canal N: Intervention in food markets to prevent the spread of COVID-19
May 12, 2020 Urbanization and sustainable cities
“The vast majority of Peruvian households buy their food in supply markets, more than 60% nationwide. That is why it is important to work with them. Not only close or move them, but understand the dynamics that occur inside in order to change the practices”. Ricardo Fort, senior researcher at GRADE, spoke with Verónica Linares of […]
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Espinoza and Fort’s study on urban expansion of the last 20 years in Peru is quoted in Somos Periodismo PUCP
August 24, 2023 Urbanization and sustainable cities
“For those with scarce resources, the option is to invade a plot of land or buy it in the illegal market. According to a study conducted by GRADE, 93% of the country’s urban expansion is developed informally”. Somos Periodismo PUCP quoted the study by our researchers Alvaro Espinoza and Ricardo Fort on the internal dynamics […]
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The right to a decent housing. An Infobae article cited study by Alvaro Espinoza and Ricardo Fort
August 22, 2023
“Annually, 127 thousand new homes are built, 84 thousand of which are built informally; therefore, there is still a housing deficit that is growing every year”. Lawyer Giancarlo Vega highlights the findings of the study by our researchers Alvaro Espinoza and Ricardo Fort, “Towards a new housing policy in Peru: problems and possibilities (“Hacia una […]
Selected Publications
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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