Poverty and Equity
The researchers in this area of GRADE develop methodologies for conducting research into the multi-disciplinary causes and characteristics of the mechanisms that sustain poverty , inequality and exclusion, as well as studies to identify opportunities for change.
Senior Researchers
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Martín Benavides Abanto (on leave)
PhD en Sociology - Pennsylvania State University
Martín Benavides has a PhD in Sociology from Pennsylvania State University where he also attained a Master’s Degree in Education Policy. He has a degree in Sociology and a BA in Sociology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, and has been a visiting student on issues of social mobility and inequality at Nuffield College […]
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Juan José Díaz Noziglia
PhD en Economics - University of Maryland
Juan José Díaz has a PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland. He is currently a Senior Researcher at GRADE. His interests include the labor economy and evaluating social, educational, health and development programs.
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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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Gabriela Guerrero Barnechea
PhD en Educational Sciences - KU Leuven
Gabriela Guerrero has a PhD in Educational Sciences from the KU Leuven in Belgium and a Master’s Degree in Development Studies with a major in Public Policy from the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, The Netherlands. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Educational Psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. She is currently a […]
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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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Juan León Jara-Almonte
PhD en - Pennsylvania State University
Juan has a PhD in Educational Theory and Policy and Comparative & International Education from Pennsylvania State University. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences with mention in Economics from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Currently, he is a Senior Researcher at GRADE. His research interests are inequality in education, intercultural bilingual education, early […]
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Alan Sánchez Jiménez
PhD en Economics - University of Oxford
Alan has a DPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford. He also holds a master degree in Economics for Development from Oxford. Currently, he is a Senior Researcher at GRADE, a Senior Researcher at Young Lives Peru, and a Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Department of International Development. He teaches on quantitative methodologies for impact […]
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Martín Valdivia Huaringa
PhD en Applied Economics - University of Minnesota
Martin Valdivia has a PhD in Applied Economics from the University of Minnesota. He has worked as a Senior Researcher at GRADE since 1993. His fields of interest include entrepreneurship, financial inclusion, rural development and more recently democratic governance, with publications in journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Development […]
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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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Vanessa Rojas Arangoitia
PhD en - Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
Vanessa holds a PhD in Sociology from Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. She has a degree in Anthropology and a Master’s degree in Political Science from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Her work has focused on the anthropology of education and childhood, addressing issues of educational transitions, child welfare, educational quality and power relations. During 2012, she […]
Adjunct Researchers
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Claudia Sugimaru Arakaki
Máster en Educational Sciences - KU Leuven
Claudia holds a Master’s degree in Educational Sciences from KU Leuven in Belgium and a degree in Psychology with a major in Education from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. Currently, she is an Adjunct Researcher at GRADE.
External Consultants
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Paulo César Carrasco Fernández
Degree en - Pedro Ruíz Gallo National University
Paulo holds a Degree in Sociology from the National University Pedro Ruiz Gallo in Lambayeque and is a member of the Professional Board of Sociologists in Peru (Colegio de Sociólogos del Perú). Currently he is a Field Supervisor of the Childhood, Violence and Development Project funded by Bernard van Leer Foundation.
Project Support Staff
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Mónica Lizama Egoavil
Degree en - National Agrarian University
Mónica studied Statistical and Computer Science Engineer at the National University Agrarian La Molina. Currently she is the Data Manager for Young Lives in Peru. Before joining Young Lives, Mónica worked as a statistics assistant at the Peruvian National Institute of Statistics (INEI) and the International Nutrition Institute (IIN).
External Affiliated Researchers
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Jere R. Behrman
Ph.D. en - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor Behrman is a leading international researcher in empirical microeconomics, with emphasis on developing economies. He is also a Research Associate at Penn’s Population Studies Center. His research interests include empirical microeconomics, labor economics, human resources (early childhood development, education, health, nutrition), project evaluation, economic demography, incentive systems and household behaviors. The unifying dimension of […]
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Marta Favara
PhD en - University of Essex
Marta is a Senior Researcher at the Oxford Department of International Development at the University of Oxford where she is leading the quantitative research agenda of Young Lives since 2015. She is also a Research Fellow at the Oxford Martin School Programme on African Governance and an IZA Research Affiliate. Before joining Young Lives, she […]
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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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JournalThe Journal of Develoment Studies
Young Lives, interrupted: short-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescents in low- and middle-income countries
2022 Marta Favara, Richard Freund, Catherine Porter, Alan Sanchez, Douglass Scott
Researchers examine the situation of adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic in four low- and middle-income countries using data from a large-scale phone survey conducted in 2020. The survey was part of Young Lives, a 20-year longitudinal study of two cohorts of young people born in 1994 and 2001 in Ethiopia, India (Andhra Pradesh and Telangana), […]
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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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The Challenges of Inequality and COVID-19 for Young People in Peru: Evidence from the Listening to Young Lives at Work COVID-19 Phone Survey
2021 Kath Ford, Santiago Cueto, Alan Sanchez
This policy brief looks at the impact of COVID-19 on the lives of adolescents and young people in Peru as they transition into adulthood, focusing on how widening inequalities are hitting those from disadvantaged backgrounds hardest.
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Estrategias de cuidado infantil en familias vulnerables peruanas: Evidencia cualitativa de Niños del Milenio
2021 Vanessa Rojas
El análisis de las percepciones de niños y niñas, y de las diversas situaciones que enfrentan familias urbanas y rurales que participan en el estudio cualitativo longitudinal Niños del Milenio (NdM), muestra que el cuidado infantil es una actividad familiar y femenina. Además, la precariedad económica en la que viven estos niños los expone a […]
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JournalInternational Journal of Epidemiology
Cohort Profile Update: The Young Lives study
2021 Marta Favara, Gina Crivello, Mary Penny, Catherine Porter, Ellanka Revathi, Alan Sanchez, Douglas Scott, Le Thuc Duc, Tassew Woldehanna, Andy McKay
• Young Lives is a longitudinal study tracking two cohorts of children in four low-and-middle-income countries [Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam]. • The survey started in 2002 and three rounds were completed by 2009. Two further rounds took place in 2013 (round 4) and 2016 (round 5). Most recently the round planned for 2020 was […]
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Accessing Higher Education in Developing Countries: Panel Data Analysis from India, Peru, and Vietnam
2016Alan Sanchez, ,
We use unique individual-level panel data from India (Andhra Pradesh), Peru, and Vietnam on a cohort of individuals surveyed from the age of 8 years to 19 years to study factors affecting enrolment in higher-education in these middle-income countries. We document (a) that similar to nationally representative data, the proportion having accessed higher-education at this […]
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Juventud y desarrollo: resultados iniciales del estudio Niños del Milenio. Cuarta ronda de encuestas en el Perú
2015Alan Sanchez,
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Nutrición y desarrollo: resultados iniciales del estudio Niños del Milenio. Cuarta ronda de encuestas en el Perú
2015,
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Educación y aprendizaje: resultados iniciales del estudio Niños del Milenio. Cuarta ronda de encuestas en el Perú
2015Santiago Cueto,
La educación ha sido destacada en el Perú e internacionalmente como un factor clave para el desarrollo personal y crecimiento económico. Si bien el Perú ha avanzado notablemente en términos de acceso y matrícula escolar, todavía tiene que vencer muchos desafíos para lograr niveles altos de aprendizaje para todos sus niños. En general, los datos […]
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Cambios en el bienestar de los hogares: resultados iniciales del estudio Niños del Milenio. Cuarta ronda de encuestas en el Perú
2015Alan Sanchez,
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JournalNJAS wageningen journal of life sciences
The homogenization effect of land titling on investment incentives: evidence from Peru
2008Ricardo Fort,
We explored this relationship for a sample of Peruvian farmers who were part of a state-led land titling programme that shared the aforementioned characteristics.
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The Mystery of Discrimination in Latin America
2008,
In the paper the authors focus on a particular family of studies, namely, wage gaps decompositions. Numerous efforts have focused on documenting earnings differentials between females and males, indigenous and nonindigenous people, or Afro-descendants and whites. As the pieces of the literature that the authors survey in this section show, comparisons of hourly labor earnings (wages or […]
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JournalThe Lancet
Developmental potential in the first 5 years for children in developing countries
2007, , Santiago Cueto, ,
Many children younger than 5 years in developing countries are exposed to multiple risks, including poverty, malnutrition, poor health, and unstimulating home environments, which detrimentally affect their cognitive, motor, and social-emotional development.
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JournalAgricultural Economics
Land inequality and economic growth: a dynamic panel data approach
2007Ricardo Fort,
The growing body of literature devoted to studying the impact of inequality on economic growth has centered its attention on the income distribution effect, even though the theoretical relationships are more related to assets distribution.
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JournalAfrican Development Review
Selection and Reporting Bias in Household Surveys of Child Labor: Evidence from Tanzania
2007,
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¿Por qué no funcionan los programas alimentarios y nutricionales en el Perú?: riesgos y oportunidades para su reforma
Investigación, políticas y desarrollo en el Perú2007Lorena Alcazar,
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Liberalización comercial, tratados de libre comercio y pobreza rural
Investigación, políticas y desarrollo en el Perú2007Javier Escobal, Carmen Ponce,
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Paisaje, territorio y recursos
Imágenes de la Tierra, Archivo Pintura Campesina2006Manuel Glave,
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Oportunidades para todos: por un Perú menos pobre y más incluyente
Oportunidades para todos: por un Perú menos pobre y más incluyentes2006, Javier Escobal, , ,
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Peruvian privatization: impacts of firms perfomance
Privatization in Latin America: myths and reality2005Maximo Torero,
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Algunos impactos del programa JUNTOS en el bienestar de los niños: Evidencia basada en el estudio Niños del Milenio
2012Javier Escobal,
Un recuento sobre diversos estudios acerca de JUNTOS para luego analizar el impacto del programa en un grupo de beneficiarios que, a su vez, pertenece a la muestra del estudio Niños del Milenio.
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Menos desiguales: la distribución del ingreso luego de las reformas estructurales
2011
Menos desiguales: la distribución del ingreso luego de las reformas estructurales.
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Vulnerabilidad de los hogares peruanos ante el TLC
2006Javier Escobal, Carmen Ponce,
Vulnerabilidad de los hogares peruanos ante el TLC.
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Los caminos de la desigualdad en la escuela peruana / Población indígena y exclusión social en el Perú
2003Martín Benavides, Nestor Valdivia,
Los caminos de la desigualdad en la escuela peruana / Población indígena y exclusión social en el Perú.
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Pequeña agricultura comercial: dinámica y retos en el Perú
2006Javier Escobal, , ,
Resultado de un proceso de discusión entre investigadores de distintas disciplinas e instituciones y busca poner en primer plano la complejidad del debate sobre el desarrollo de la pequeña agricultura en el Perú.
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Más alla de los promedios: afro descendientes en América Latina: pobreza, discriminación social e identidad el caso de la población afrodescendiente en Perú
2006Martín Benavides, Maximo Torero, Nestor Valdivia,
Se busca responder preguntas cruciales en torno a 3 temas: las percepciones de esta población sobre la discriminación y exclusión social; las características de su cultura y su identidad étnica; y su situación de pobreza.
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Participación comunitaria en el monitoreo de las actividades mineras: los casos de Vicos y de San Mateo de Huanchor
2002Juana Kuramoto,
Este libro resume las actividades y conclusiones a las que se llegaron en la investigación "Participación Comunitaria en el Monitoreo de Actividades Mineras: Los Casos de Vicos y de San Mateo de Huanchor".
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Reformas estructurales y bienestar: una mirada al Perú de los noventa
2001,
Se discute la experiencias de la última década y se da una mirada crítica a algunos aspectos de lo acontecido con las reformas económicas y sociales de primera generación durante los noventas.
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Projects
- Training for development: recent progress and policy lessonsSeptember 2012 - December 2013
- Support in the preparation of a preliminary results-based design proposal for the Qali Warma National School Nutritional ProgramAugust 2012 - October 2012
- Administration of the PEP-PAGE projectAugust 2012 - August 2015
- Mini-novels, financial education and savings promotionJuly 2012 - April 2014
- One Laptop per Child at home. Supervision, monitoring and training workshops for teachers and pupilsJune 2012 - October 2012
- Pilot and design of qualitative methodologies for the study of chronic poverty in Latin America and The CaribbeanMay 2012 - June 2012
- Indicators on violence against children in PeruMay 2012 - January 2013
- Annual monitoring of informal economy in PeruApril 2012 - December 2012
- Expansion of rural micro financing services for people with low income through community banking in ParaguayApril 2012 - June 2012
- Support in reviewing the design of the JUNTOS program so that it is results basedApril 2012 - June 2012
News
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Interview, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
A talk between Hugo Ñopo and Elmer Huerta M.D. in RPP Noticias: Social determinants of health
May 22, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation, Poverty and equality
“Four out of ten Peruvians work independently. Of those four, three work in a very precarious way due to what they manage to carry out at the end of the month at their household is below the minimum vital wage of 900 soles” . These are some of the figures that Hugo Ñopo, senior researcher at GRADE, shared with […]
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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Hugo Ñopo via BBC Mundo: factors that explain why confinement measures do not prevent Peru from being the second country in Latin America with the most cases of COVID-19
May 22, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation, Poverty and equality, Health and nutrition
Hugo Ñopo is one of the experts who discusses five factors that explain why confinement measures do not prevent Peru from being the second country in Latin America with the most cases of the coronavirus. One of the problems is informality, which prevented the social distance from being maximized: “We are talking about households where monetary income […]
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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Hugo Ñopo in The Guardian: Peru’s coronavirus response was ‘right on time’ – so why isn’t it working?
May 21, 2020 Poverty and equality
“Our social contract was broken and nobody bothered to fix it. Now it’s exploding in our faces”, said Hugo Ñopo in regard of the historic lack of investment in public institutions that left Peru vulnerable in the face of the pandemic. The opinion of our senior researcher about why Peru’s coronavirus response is not working as […]
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Interview, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Miguel Jaramillo in Canal N: sectors that suffer the most from the economic crisis due to the pandemic
May 13, 2020 Employment, productivity and innovation, Poverty and equality
“There are two groups that appear to be less likely to receive government aid. On the one hand, the poor are not identifiable, given the problems of the patterns with which they identify beneficiary households. On the other hand, the emerging middle class , who is not far from the poverty line, but who due […]
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Opinion Article, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
The other victims: Covid-19 expone la desigualdad, por Lorena Alcázar vía Ojo Público
April 21, 2020 Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship, Poverty and equality
More than a month after the quarantine started, the situation is uncertain and worrying for thousands of families. The impact of measures to tackle the pandemic is not the same for everyone. Women have a greater presence in the sectors hardest hit by the crisis: commerce (26% versus 13% of men) and services (44% versus […]
Events
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A Young Lives study on educational trajectories of poor students of rural areas in Peru was discussed with experts
26/06/2019 8:30 am - 10:30 am Auditorio de GRADE (Av. Almirante Grau 915, Barranco) Education and learning, Poverty and equality
‘Children who migrate from rural to urban areas tend to have better educational outcomes over time’. Is migration the key to educational improvement? Or, should we focus on improving the educational offer in rural areas? Is it just an improvement in the educational offer or should a transversal policy be implemented? What is the role […]
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Vanessa Rojas remarks a Plan International and UNFPA study on young adolescents in early and forced marriages and unions in Peru
14/06/2019 9:30 am - 11:30 am Hotel José Antonio Deluxe (Calle Bellavista 133, Miraflores) Poverty and equality
“Young adolescents should not continue thinking that the beginning of sexual life should be linked to an early union, although the report mentions that in Piura many girls are robbed, others take an active part in the decision. They asked to be robbed, they did it because they wanted to avoid the social sanction before […]
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Call: 2019 Young Lives Peru’s Methodological Workshop
03/04/2019 → 05/04/2019 Auditorio de GRADE (Av. Almirante Grau 915, Barranco) Education and learning, Poverty and equality, Health and nutrition
Do you want to learn the methods and data of the largest longitudinal study currently carried out in Peru? Apply until March 22 to the 2019 Young Lives Peru’s Methodological Workshop. The Workshop will take place from April 3 to 5, 2019. Thanks to the Old Dart Foundation, the 20 selected will join the Workshop at no cost. In […]
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Santiago Cueto shared the work of Young Lives Peru at the USIL II International Congress of Psychological Evaluation
23/11/2018 Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola (Av. la Fontana 550, La Molina) Education and learning, Poverty and equality, Health and nutrition
Our Executive Director and Young Lives Peru Country Coordinator, Santiago Cueto, presented “Opportunities and educational trajectories of two cohorts of students in Peru” at the University San Ignacio de Loyola II International Congress of Psychological Evaluation. You may download Santiago’s presentation here.
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Miguel Jaramillo joined the International Forum on Reform and Opening Up and Poverty Reduction in China
01/11/2018 → 02/11/2018 Beijing, China Poverty and equality
Our senior researcher, Miguel Jaramillo, joined the International Forum on Reform and Opening Up and Poverty Reduction in China, held by the Government and the World Bank on November 1-2. During the event, China’s state leaders, heads of international organizations, senior officials from governments, enterprises, financial institutions, diplomatic community in Beijing, think tanks and academics will […]
- 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
