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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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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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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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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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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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 fair trade on banana producers in northern Peru
The impact of fair trade2008 Ricardo Fort, Ruerd Ruben
This study provides one of the first detailed analyses of the impact of FT banana certification at the household level.
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Small farmers economic organizations: producer associations and agricultural development in Peru
Economic liberalization and evolution of rural agricultural sector in Peru2003 Manuel 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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Peru: learning by doing
Large mines and the community socioeconomic and environmental effects in Latin America, Canada and Spain2001 Alberto Pascó-Font, Gerardo Damonte, Ricardo Fort, Guillermo Salas
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Projects
- Governance and productivity in food markets in LimaSeptember 2016
- The processes of spontaneous urbanization in the absence of the StateMarch 2016
- The governance and productivity of the wholesale markets in Lima: a pilot studyOctober 2015
- The political economy of land inequality in Latin America: the case of PeruAugust 2015
- Vínculo entre las políticas fiscales para el aceite de palma en el Perú y los objetivos REDD+ del paísJune 2015
- Impact assessment design of Programa AndenesDecember 2014
- Study of sustainable agricultural value chains to fight against rural poverty in PeruAugust 2014
- Support for research and discussion on CENAGRO-based policiesMarch 2014
- Agricultural value chains in PeruMarch 2014 - July 2014
- Impacts of public rural investment in the development of regions and population well-being levels (2002-2012)October 2013 - February 2014
Media
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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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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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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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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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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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Beyond SNIP, by Ricardo Fort and Álvaro Espinoza
November 21, 2016 State reform and public institutions, Urbanization and sustainable cities
Our researchers Ricardo Fort and Álvaro Espinoza address the complexities which the National Public Investment System (SNIP) reform should be dealing: “[…] we need a public investment planing system articulating sectors and government levels, and strictly binding with the state budget system. Only in this way we will be able to make a real quality jump in public investment.”
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Ricardo Fort gives his thoughts on the challenges of small-scale agriculture
July 16, 2018 Rural development and agriculture
How to advance in the challenges of small-scale agriculture? Our senior researcher, Ricardo Fort, gives his thoughts in La República newspaper: “The development of the agro-export sector is beneficial, but it could be more if we built cooperative platforms between all the sectors from the State that allow an apprenticeship of what the agro-export sector has already advanced and transmit […]
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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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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 […]
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GRADE: Peru has over 400 thousand hectares to plant oil palm
November 10, 2016 Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict
“… it have been identified potential areas for oil palm plantations, strategies for linking small scale agricultors into the production chain, and legal and institutional aspects”. Ricardo Fort, senior researcher at GRADE and editor of the book “¿Agroindustria en la Amazonía?”, shared with diario Gestión the main issues addressed in the publication, linked to the possibility of […]
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Ricardo Fort: “Un tema fundamental es la necesidad de articular mejor los esfuerzos del sector público en la provisión de infraestructura”
May 24, 2016 State reform and public institutions, Urbanization and sustainable cities
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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
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