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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JournalEnvironment and Development Economics
Extractive industries and local development in the Peruvian Highlands
2015 Elisa Ticci, Javier Escobal
During the last 20 years, the mining sector in Peru has been experiencing sustained growth. Using census, administrative, nationally and regionally representative data we compare districts in the Peruvian Highlands with a recent mining development with suitable counterfactuals. We find that the new mining activities attract migration inflows, and have some positive effects over educational […]
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Polarización y segregación en la distribución del ingreso en el Perú: Trayectorias desiguales
Territorios en movimiento: hacia un desarrollo inclusivo2014 Javier Escobal, Carmen Ponce
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La modernización campesina bajo la lupa: explorando el impacto del programa Sierra Productiva a nivel de distritos
2014 Mauricio Espinoza
A pesar de la importante magnitud alcanzada por Sierra Productiva durante casi 20 años de intervención –tanto en términos de cobertura como de incidencia en la política nacional–, no se contaba con una evaluación sobre el alcance real de sus resultados a nivel agregado, e incluso las evaluaciones del caso eran casi inexistentes. Utilizando información […]
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Spotlight on organisations: smallholder farmers and rural development
2014 Manuel Glave
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Spotlight on publications: smallholder farmers and rural development
2014 Manuel Glave
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Projects
News
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Opinion Article, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Food Insecurity in Peru, by Eduardo Zegarra
June 8, 2020 Rural development and agriculture
The sanitary crisis, due to the coronavirus in Peru, is also becoming a food crisis. A recent survey by INEI to families in Metropolitan Lima and Callao during the first week of May 2020 attests to that. 14% of households said they had been unable to buy protein-containing foods such as meat, fish, and eggs. […]
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Opinion Article, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
From the pandemics to food crisis in Peru, by Eduardo Zegarra, via Ojo Público
May 25, 2020 Rural development and agriculture
In May, 14% of households in Lima and Callao could not buy protein foods such as meat, fish and eggs due to lack of money. At the national level, in all urban Peru the number rises to 3.5 million people; not counting the rural areas, hard hit. With the high number of contagions in the […]
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Opinion Article, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
The urgent need to distribute the universal bonus, by Eduardo Zegarra
April 28, 2020 Rural development and agriculture
“The bonus must be comprehensive and cater to all families in urban and rural areas. In the current circumstances, it is necessary to integrate all the initially announced vouchers (social, independent, rural) into a single universal voucher that reaches all families without a member in payroll regardless of their economic activity and / or poverty […]
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Interview, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Eduardo Zegarra spoke with La República about the possibility of a food shortage
April 15, 2020 Rural development and agriculture
Eduardo Zegarra, senior researcher at GRADE, spoke with La Republica newspaper about the possibility of a food shortage in the following days. In addition, it warns of the need for concrete measures to support the agricultural sector and protect agricultural producers.
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Interview, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Eduardo Zegarra in La Mula: “If small farmers continue to be abandoned, we put the food of the cities at risk”
April 1, 2020 Rural development and agriculture
“If small farmers continue to be abandoned, we put the food of the cities at risk.” In the face of the coronavirus crisis, Eduardo Zegarra, senior researcher at GRADE, warns of insufficient support from the Executive to family farming, a segment that produces most of the food that we Peruvians consume. Read this interview by […]
Events
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Investigadores de GRADE participarán en el Seminario Bienal SEPIA XVI – Arequipa 2015
25/08/2015 → 27/08/2015 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Universidad San Agustín, Arequipa Rural development and agriculture, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict
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Javier Escobal participa en Diálogo por la concertación “Retos para la gobernabilidad: Perú al 2021” de la MCLCP
14/08/2015 8:00 am - 1:00 pm Auditorio de la Sociedad Nacional de Industrias (Los Laureles N° 365, San Isidro) Rural development and agriculture, Poverty and equality
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Taller “Censo agropecuario, agricultura y desarrollo rural: análisis y políticas en debate”
21/07/2015 9:00 am - 8:00 pm Auditorio de GRADE (Av. Almirante Grau 915, Barranco) Rural development and agriculture
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SEPIA y GRADE presentarán resultados de los cuatro últimos estudios ganadores del Concurso Becas – IV CENAGRO
03/02/2015 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm Auditorio del IEP (Horacio Urteaga 694, Jesús María) Rural development and agriculture, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict
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SEPIA y GRADE presentarán resultados de los cuatro primeros estudios ganadores del Concurso Becas – IV CENAGRO
27/01/2015 5:30 pm Auditorio de GRADE (Av. Almirante Grau 915, Barranco) Rural development and agriculture, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes
- 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
