Rural Development and Agriculture
GRADE researchers have a continuing interest in the state of agricultural and livestock production and the impacts of economic policy and reforms on the rural economy in Peru. Studies are carried out into forest economics, the impacts of public infrastructure on the rural economy, the main drivers of private investment, the dynamics of rural employment and migration, and rural financial systems.
Senior Researchers
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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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Ricardo Fort Meyer
PhD en Economic Development - Wageningen University
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 […]
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Manuel Glave Testino
PhD en Economics - University of Illinois en Champaign
Manuel Glave has a PhD in Economics from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. He is a Senior Researcher at GRADE where he specialises in rural development, environmental economics and natural resources, and where he undertakes analysis of public policy relating to agriculture and the environment. He is a Senior Professor in the Department of […]
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Eduardo Zegarra Méndez
PhD en Agricultural and Applied Economics - University of Wisconsin
Eduardo Zegarra is an economist from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and has a PhD in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Wisconsin, specializing in rural development and natural resource management. His dissertation explores the workings and failures of the water market in Chile. He has researched and published on a wide […]
Adjunct Researchers
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Elena Borasino Deustua
Master en - Wageningen University
Elena holds a master’s degree in International Development with mention in Development Economics from Wageningen University. Currently she is an Adjunct Researcher at GRADE.
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Mauricio Espinoza Hermoza
PhD candidate en - Wageningen University & Reseach
Mauricio is an Adjunct Researcher at GRADE. He holds a master’s degree in Agriculture, Environment and Regional Economics from Pennsylvania State University and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He is currently a PhD candidate in Economic Development at Wageningen University & Reseach in the Netherlands. His areas of […]
External Affiliated Researchers
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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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JournalEconomía y Sociedad
El impacto de la inversión pública en el desarrollo regional
2015 Ricardo Fort
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Cambio climático, uso de riego y estrategias de diversificación de cultivos en la sierra peruana
Agricultura peruana: nuevas miradas desde el censo agropecuario2015 Carmen Ponce, Carlos Alberto Arnillas, Javier Escobal
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JournalPolicy in Focus
Combining social protection with economic opportunities in rural Peru: Haku Wiñay
2015 Javier Escobal, Carmen Ponce
The authors assess the impact of the Haku Wiñay programme (Mi chacra emprendedora), an intervention that provides productive technical assistance and a small asset transfer to rural households in the districts that are also covered by the Juntos programme, Peru’s conditional cash transfer (CCT). Haku Wiñay focuses on the development of productive and entrepreneurial skills […]
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Agricultura peruana: nuevas miradas desde el Censo Agropecuario
2015 Javier Escobal, Ricardo Fort, Eduardo Zegarra
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Estructura agraria y dinámica de pobreza rural en el Perú
2015 Javier Escobal, Carmen Armas
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Estabilización y crecimiento en el Perú: política fiscal
1990
Exposición y posterior discusión sobre la reforma fiscal, que se realizará en el marco de la presentación de la propuesta de programa de estabilización para la economía peruana elaborada en GRADE.
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Lineamientos, diagnóstico y propuesta para un programa de estabilización
1990Javier Escobal,
El documento recoge exposiciones y comentarios sobre los lineamientos del programa de estabilización y crecimiento para el Perú, en el marco de la presentación de dicho programa, elaborado en GRADE.
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Política cambiaria, monetaria, financiera y de deuda
1990
Este documento recoge la discusión sobre las políticas cambiaria, monetaria, financiera y de deuda, en el marco de un programa de estabilización y crecimiento para el Perú elaborado en GRADE.
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Política fiscal y reforma tributaria
1990
Se muestra el fracaso de la política fiscal aplicada en el Perú durante los últimos años y se establecen los lineamientos generales y específicos que deberían orientar la política fiscal en el mediano plazo.
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Opciones de política de precios agrícolas en el Perú: el caso de las bandas de precios
1990Javier Escobal,
En el presente documento de trabajo se analiza, en base a la experiencia peruana, las principales motivaciones para la intervención del estado en el proceso de formación de precios agrícolas.
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Projects
- Preparación de Agenda Priorizada de Reformas o Tareas Pendientes en la Administración Pública del Sector AgriculturaJune 2005
- Public expenditure, rural growth and poverty in the countries of the Andean CommunityMay 2005
- Social movement around water access in a decentralization context: the case of Olmos project at the Peruvian North CoastMay 2005
- Evaluación de los Impactos de corto plazo del TLC que se negocia con Estados Unidos sobre el sector ruralFebruary 2005
News
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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
International Potato Day: Eduardo Zegarra shares his opinion on the 2020 agrarian poverty figures reported by INEI
May 30, 2021 Rural development and agriculture, Health and nutrition
Regarding the agrarian poverty figures reported by the National Household Survey (ENAHO) 2020 of the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI), Eduardo Zegarra, senior researcher at GRADE, explains the problem of overproduction and dependence on industry food importation of inputs. Article of Convoca on the sidelines of the International Potato Day.
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Opinion Article, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
The Agrarian Law in Limbo, Where to Go?, by Eduardo Zegarra
December 21, 2020 Rural development and agriculture
“The responsibility for this crisis is there, not in the workers who are desperate and have been harmed by this situation for so long. We hope that this time Congress and the Executive do realize that the most urgent thing is to solve this problem with measures that we believe are viable and make economic […]
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Eduardo Zegarra explains in RPP Noticias the labor conditions of agro-export workers
December 2, 2020 Rural development and agriculture
“The labor part of the Agrarian Promotion Law does not create a specific type of contract for the agricultural sector. Firms use the general regime in the form of temporary employment, but what this law does is to degrade some basic rights of workers in the use of these temporary contracts. For example, CTS, bonuses and […]
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Eduardo Zegarra shares his opinion in AgroNoticias about food imports
November 29, 2020 Rural development and agriculture
“There is a total abandonment of the protection of national production. It is a trend of the last 30 years of successive governments, which have favored the importation of subsidized food and unprotected our agriculture, and that is passing bills. That is why we have very high agrarian poverty rates”. Eduardo Zegarra, senior researcher at […]
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Opinion Article, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Sagasti’s administration and the agrarian agenda in the pandemic, by Eduardo Zegarra
November 25, 2020 Rural development and agriculture
“It is no small thing that the new government administration must face in the midst of a pandemic. […] Peruvian agriculture deserves a change of course now, with a vision of development and attention to the needs of our more than two million family farmers For the good of the country, we hope and hope […]
Events
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Investigadores de GRADE se presentarán en el XXXV Congreso Internacional de la Asociación de Estudios Latinoamericanos LASA 2017 – Diálogos de Saberes
29/04/2017 → 01/05/2017 7:00 am - 9:00 pm Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú Rural development and agriculture, Education and learning, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict
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Eduardo Zegarra discussed on the findings of the Inclusive Agri-Food Chains project, at Apega forum
29/03/2017 9:00 am - 10:00 am Hotel Country Club (calle Los Eucaliptos 590, San Isidro) Rural development and agriculture
Our senior researcher, Eduardo Zegarra, discussed on the lessons and recommendations to boost agri-food value chains, regarding the finalization of the Inclusive Agri-Food Chains promoted by the Peruvian Gastronomic Society (Apega), with support from the Multilateral Investment Fund of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). The presentation was conducted by the Project Coordinator, Luis Ginocchio. During his speech, Zegarra […]
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Eduardo Zegarra will be speaker and chair at the 7th Bolivian Conference on Development Economics
09/12/2016 1:15 pm - 2:45 pm Rural development and agriculture
Our senior researcher, Eduardo Zegarra, will be speaker and chair at the 7th Bolivian Conference on Development Economics, on December 8 and 9 in Bolivia. The event is held by the Society of Bolivian Economists (SEBOL), the Institute for Advanced Development Studies (INESAD), the Bolivian Academy of Economic Sciences (ABCE), and Universidad Privada Boliviana (UPB). The conference […]
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GRADE on live, Publication Presentation
Presentación del libro “¿Agroindustria en la Amazonía? Posibilidades para el desarrollo inclusivo y sostenible de la palma aceitera en el Perú”
17/10/2016 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Auditorio de GRADE (Av. Almirante Grau 915, Barranco) Rural development and agriculture, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict
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 enfrenta reflejan muchas de las […]
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Eduardo Zegarra is panelist at the ‘Contributions of Sierra Productiva program to national development’ Forum
26/07/2016 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Rural development and agriculture, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes
Our senior researcher, Eduardo Zegarra, will be panelist at the ‘Contributions of Sierra Productiva program to national development’ Forum, organized by the Capítulo de Ingeniería Agronómica y Zootecnia of the Engineers’ Association of Peru, on Tuesday, 26 July 2016. The discussion will be carried out by Carlos Paredes, General Coordinator of the Sierra Productiva program. The former Minister of Agriculture, Carlos Amat y León, […]
- 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
