Lorena Alcázar Valdivia
Senior Researcher
PhD in Economics - Washington University
lalcazar@grade.org.pe
Lorena has a BA in Economics from the Pacific University in Peru, a Master’s Degree in Political and International Economy from the Kiel Institute of World Economics, and a PhD in Economics from Washington University. She is currently a Senior Researcher at the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE).
Previously, she served as Vice-President of the Supervisory Board for Investment in Public Transport Infrastructure (OSITRAN), Research Director of the Apoyo Institute, Professor and Researcher at the Pacific University, Economist for the World Bank, Visiting Researcher at the Brookings Institution and Advisor to the Ministry of Economy and Finance in the field of social policy. She has implemented various projects and consultancies and has published numerous works on topics such as social policy, education, health, poverty, and design and evaluation of social programmes.
Publications
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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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JournalEconomía & Sociedad
Propuestas de reformas para la integración laboral de la población migrante venezolana en el Perú
2023 Lorena Alcazar, Fernando Távara
El mayor nivel de desempleo y precariedad laboral que experimentan los migrantes venezolanos, en comparación con la población local, se debe a distintas barreras que enfrentan para participar en el mercado de trabajo. Facilitar la regularización migratoria, retirar limitaciones para que micro y pequeñas empresas contraten extranjeros, expandir los servicios públicos de empleo para que […]
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Mejorando la empleabilidad de mujeres urbanas vulnerables en tiempos de pandemia en el Perú: evaluación experimental del componente de capacitación virtual en un programa de empleo temporal
2023 Lorena Alcazar, Shirley Huerta
This paper evaluates the impact of a training programme delivered randomly to beneficiaries of the temporary employment programme Trabaja Perú (TP). This experiment offers the opportunity to examine the impact of the intervention targeting vulnerable women in a particular context of high unemployment such as that generated by COVID-19. The study uses a mainly quantitative […]
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Medidas de protección social del gobierno peruano en época de la Covid-19
2022 Lorena Alcazar, Vanessa Rojas, Emilio López de Romaña
In the current context, where the pandemic still persists, but whose health impacts are reduced by the increasing application of vaccines, it is important to analyze what the State has done to protect the population, especially children and adolescents, from poverty. This analysis makes it possible to assess the effectiveness and relevance of the State’s […]
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Chapter in BookThe political impact of the sustainable development goals: transforming governance through global goals?
Inclusiveness
2022 Carol-Anne Senit, Chukwumerije Okereke, Lorena Alcazar, Dan Banik, Mairon Bastos Lima, Frank Biermann, Rongedzayi Fambasayi, Ibrahima Hathie, Annica Kronsell, Hanna Leonardsson, Navam Niles, Karen M. Siegel
How and to what extent have the Sustainable Development Goals helped to achieve more inclusion and better support for poor and vulnerable groups within countries? And internationally, have the Sustainable Development Goals led to a fairer global economic system and given least developed countries a stronger voice in global governance? These are the key questions […]
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La inclusión educativa de NNA migrantes venezolanos en el Perú: una política que no se puede nombrar
2020 Lorena Alcazar, Maria Balarin
The education sector has identified the important and growing demand of foreign migrant families, and has reacted to this issue. However, a discourse and practice guaranteeing the right to education coexists with a marked absence of policies explicitly aimed at facilitating its educational inclusion. In this analysis paper, the authors address the educational inclusion of […]
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Poor education and precarious jobs in Peru: understanding who is left behind and why
2020 Lorena Alcazar, Micaela Bullard, Maria Balarin
Given the large inequalities in Peru, fulfilling the ’leave no one behind’ UN 2030 Agenda commitment might become the country’s largest challenge to SDG implementation. In light of this, understanding who is left behind, and why, gains particular importance. This study uses a mixed methodological approach to provide a baseline of the left behind in […]
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Brechas que perduran: una radiografía de la exclusión social en Perú
2019 Lorena Alcazar
Peru achieved many of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) before the 2015 deadline, a sign of the great economic and social advances of recent decades. However, the high levels of heterogeneity that persist in the development indicators show the high inequalities in the country, particularly in relation to traditionally excluded groups such as women, indigenous […]
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Vocational and business training to improve women’s labour market outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review
2018 Marjorie Chinen, Thomas de Hoop, Lorena Alcazar, Maria Balarin, Josh Sennett, Julian Mezarina
This Campbell systematic review examines the impact of vocational and business training targeted at women in low- and middle-income countries. The review summarises evidence from thirty-five quantitative studies with an experimental or quasi-experimental design. The review summarises the impact of 30 interventions, containing data from over 80,000 women. The qualitative narrative meta-synthesis includes findings from […]
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Vocational and business training to improve women’s labour market outcomes in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review
2017 Marjorie Chinen, Thomas de Hoop, Lorena Alcazar, Maria Balarin, Josh Sennett
This Campbell systematic review examines the impact of vocational and business training targeted at women in low- and middle-income countries. The review summarises evidence from thirty-five quantitative studies with an experimental or quasi-experimental design. The review summarises the impact of 30 interventions, containing data from over 80,000 women. The qualitative narrative meta-synthesis includes findings from […]
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JournalRevista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud Pública
Efecto de un suplemento nutricional a base de lípidos en los niveles de hemoglobina e indicadores antropométricos en niños de cinco distritos de Huánuco, Perú
2015 Alejandro Vargas-Vásquez, Ricardo Bado, Lorena Alcazar, Oscar Aquino, Amelia Rodríguez, José Pedro Novalbos
This study aims to determine the effect of consumption of a lipid-based nutrient supplement (LNS) on hemoglobin levels, anemia and anthropometric indicators in children aged six to eleven months old in five districts in the province of Ambo in the region of Huanuco, Peru
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JournalRevista Peruana de Medicina Experimental
Impacto económico de la desnutrición crónica, aguda y global en el Perú
2013 Lorena Alcazar, Diego Ocampo, Lucio Huamán-Espino, Juan Pablo Aparco
Objectives. To estimate the economic impact of chronic, acute and global malnutrition in Peru. Materials and methods. This study, through an econometric model, estimated the economic impact of child malnutrition in two time horizons (incidental retrospective and prospective) during 2011, considering malnutrition-associated costs of health, education and productivity for the Peruvian economy. Information collected is […]
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JournalRevista Peruana de Investigación Educativa
Descentralización funcional y presupuestal de la educación pública en el Perú: un balance de avances y desafíos
2011 Lorena Alcazar, Nestor Valdivia
Un diagnóstico de la gestión presupuestal de la educación pública en un contexto de descentralización política que ha implicado la transferencia de competencias y funciones educativas a los gobiernos subnacionales.
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JournalInternational Journal of Educational Research
Why are teachers absent?: probing service delivery in Peruvian primary schools
2006 Lorena Alcazar, F. Halsey Rogers, Nazmul Chaudhury, Jeffrey Hammer
A high rate of absence of teachers from their posts is a serious obstacle to delivery of education in many developing countries, but hard evidence on the problem has been scarce. This study, carried out as part of a new multi-country survey project, is the first systematic investigation in Peru into the extent and causes […]
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El entorno de la investigación social en el Perú
Desigualdad en la academia: mujeres en las ciencias sociales2018 Lorena Alcazar, Maria Balarin, Aurora Escudero
In Peru there are important coincidences with the findings of this literature, but there are also particularities that can be explained by what we can describe as the precarious environment in which academic research is developed in the country, an environment that deepens some gender inequalities that are also raised in this book.
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¿Cómo abordar el estudio de las inequidades de género en el mundo académico?
Desigualdad en la academia: mujeres en las ciencias sociales2018 Lorena Alcazar, Maria Balarin
This first chapter seeks to situate readers of this book in this shared conceptual approach to the problem of gender inequalities in academia. To this, we present a brief discussion of how we approach regimes of inequality in academia and research, and the main contributions of the international literature on how differences between women and […]
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Does participatory budgeting have an effect on the quality of public services? The case of Perú´s water and sanitation sector
Improving access and quality of public services in Latin America: to govern and to serve2017 Miguel Jaramillo, Lorena Alcazar
This chapter presents a discussion of the effects of participatory budgeting (PB) on coverage and quality of public services in Peru. Using econometric techniques, the authors analyze the link from PB to coverage and water service quality indicators, showing that there is no evidence of a positive relationship. In effect, they do not find a […]
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Algunas reflexiones sobre los programas alimentarios y nutricionales: cambios y retos durante la última década
Investigación para el desarrollo en el Perú: once balances2016 Lorena Alcazar
This article analyzes the state of nutritional and food social programs in Peru in light of what has been learned and observed over the past decade, and identifies the main challenges they still face. It follows from the study “Why do food and nutritional programs not work?” (Alcazar 2007), reviewing how these programs have changed […]
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Fe y Alegria schools in Peru: analysis of the institutional management and pedagogy model and lessons for public education
Faith-based schools in Latin America: case studies on Fe y Alegria2014 Lorena Alcazar, Nestor Valdivia
The purpose of this chapter is to analyze the characteristics of Fe y alegría’s management both at the institutional and school level, and identify success factors and lessons that can be applied to the rest of the education sector. It analyzes the institutional and pedagogical management and, within each of these, the role of key […]
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Impacto de la licencia municipal en el desempeño de las microempresas en el Cercado de Lima
2013 Lorena Alcazar, Miguel Jaramillo
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The uses and abuses of social programmes: the case of conditional cash transfers
2010 Lorena Alcazar
Conditional cash tranfer programmes are promoted as best practice in the social sector for fighting poverty. However, autonomy and discretion make them vulnerable to corruption when beneficiaries and programme officers falsify information to receive tranfers, or politicians use them to get votes. Consistent programme design aligned with clear criteria for targeting households, effective complaint mechanisms […]
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Políticas para mejorar el desempeño del mercado laboral / Las concesiones de infraestructura en el sector portuario
2005 Miguel Jaramillo, Lorena Alcazar
Policies to improve labour market performance by Miguel Jaramillo. Infrastructure concessions in the port sector: an assessment of the Matarani experience by Lorena Alcázar.
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Boletines de apoyo al Congreso: servicio de asesoría económica.
2002 Lorena Alcazar
Boletines de apoyo al Congreso: servicio de asesoría económica. Cinco boletines: descentralización I y II, corrupción, empleo y educación
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El gasto público social frente a la infancia: análisis del Programa Juntos y de la oferta y demanda de servicios asociados a sus condiciones
2009 Lorena Alcazar
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Investigación, políticas y desarrollo en el Perú
2007 Eduardo Zegarra, Veronica Minaya, Javier Escobal, Carmen Ponce, Juana Kuramoto, Manuel Glave, Lorena Alcazar, Miguel Jaramillo, Hugo Ñopo, Juan Jose Diaz, Nancy Birdsall, Rachel Menezes, Maximo Torero, José Deustua, Manuel Hernández, Santiago Cueto, Martín Benavides, Juan Leon, Martin Valdivia, Nestor Valdivia
Este libro recoge las Mimeos presentadas en la conferencia Investigación, políticas y desarrollo, realidad en el marco del 25 aniversario del Grupo de Análisis para el Desarrollo.
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Transferencia de responsabilidades: entrando a una segunda etapa
2007 Lorena Alcazar, Elena Conterno, Mayen Ugarte
The study provides an in-depth analysis of the different elements involved in devolution and includes detailed recommendations on how to address them in the future to ensure that devolution translates into better services for citizens. The preparation of this publication included an exploration of the state of devolution based on a literature review, interviews and […]
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Las pérdidas en el camino, fugas en el gasto público: transferencias municipales, vaso de leche y sector educación
2003 Lorena Alcazar, José Roberto Lopez- Calix, Eric Wachtenheim
When one looks at the deplorable social indicators in our country, the first question that comes to mind is whether this is because the state spends too little on essentials such as education, health and nutrition, or whether it is because these services and programmes are so inefficient. Are we spending too little or spending […]
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Projects
- Measurement, learning and social measurement to generate behavioral change, as part of Antamina’s social strategyOctober 2020
- Rebuilding to improve: opportunities from the crisis for sustainable and inclusive improvements in food security, labor markets and social protectionJuly 2020
- Mixed evaluation of the implementation of the Ministry of Health Home Visits with Social Actors intervention, on the sidelines of child health priorityMarch 2020
- Access to the educational system: Factors that facilitate or limit access to migrant children and adolescentsDecember 2019
- Methodological note for the impact evaluation of district home visits for the reduction of anaemia in childrenDecember 2019
- SINEACE’s accreditation model evaluationNovember 2019
- Challenges and public policy recommendations in gender and diversity in PeruJune 2019
- Factors associated with partner violence against women: a departmental approach based on patterns of victimizationJune 2019
- Evaluation of the police intervention against complaints of violence against women: Experimental evaluation of the Home Visitation Program of the National Police of PeruJune 2019
- Monitoring and evaluation of five projects for improving education in PiscoJanuary 2019
Media
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The Consequences of Gender Discrimination in Work and Education in Peru, by Lorena Alcazar
June 5, 2019 Ethnicity, gender and citizenship
In Peru, gender is one of the main factors contributing to disparities in education and employment. In this new article for Southern Voice, Lorena Alcázar, Senior Researcher at GRADE, outlines the many ways in which young Peruvians struggle to access decent work. Lorena leads Peru’s study case as part of the Southern Voice’s ‘State of […]
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Meeting the Left Behind Youth in Peru, by Lorena Alcazar
April 3, 2019 Poverty and equality
Young people in Peru face tremendous challenges in both qualities of education and access to decent work. In this Southern Voice article, our Senior Researcher Lorena Alcázar shares relevant findings on the conditions of those left behind in the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in our country and how to help them.
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How does anaemia affect the national economy?
June 26, 2018 Health and nutrition
How does anaemia affect the national economy? With regard to the recent numbers from the Demographic and Health Survey (ENDES) 2017, El Comercio highlights the findings of Lorena Alcázar on the economic impact of anaemia in Peru. The main finding of our researcher is that the prevalence of this disease costs Peruvian society approximately S […]
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PUCP’s weekly highlights Grupo Sofia’s new book on inequality in academia
May 22, 2018 Ethnicity, gender and citizenship
PuntoEdu, the weekly of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), highlights Grupo Sofia’s new book, “Inequality in academia: women in the Peruvian social sciences“, edited by our senior researchers and members of Sofía, Lorena Alcázar and María Balarin. ►Download the book here. ►Read the full weekly here.
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Inequality in academy, by Lorena Alcázar and María Balarin
May 11, 2018 Ethnicity, gender and citizenship
In the Peruvian social sciences, half of the university students are women. However, only one in three teachers and one in five media experts are women. Why do we see fewer women in academic events, media and in teaching and management positions? What can be done about it? We share the op-ed by Lorena Alcázar and María Balarin, […]
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¿La democracia participativa es más eficaz en las decisiones presupuestarias?
March 5, 2013 State reform and public institutions
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Citizen participation could improve fiscal policy
February 4, 2018 State reform and public institutions
After the 2017 Open Budget Survey publication, which revealed Peru as one of the most transparent countries on the allocation and execution of the public budget, but lagging behind in citizen participation in budgetary decisions, El Comercio highlighted the study of our senior reseacher, Miguel Jaramillo, along with Glenn Wright, who find that voluntary participatory […]
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Patricia del Río’s op-ed highlights Lorena Alcázar’s study on the economic impact of anaemia in Peru
June 22, 2017 Health and nutrition
Journalist Patricia del Río warned about anaemia numbers reported by the 2016 Encuesta Demográfica y de Salud Familiar (Demographic and Family Health Survey): “More than 40% of children under 3 years have anaemia”, and highlighted the main finding of Lorena Alcázar’s study on the economic impact of this disease in the country: the cost of anaemia for Peruvian society reached approximately S/2.777 […]
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Four to ten children under 3 years old suffer anaemia in Peru
July 17, 2014 State reform and public institutions, Health and nutrition
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44,5% de niños con anemia: piden acción urgente
April 4, 2013 Health and nutrition
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Presentations
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Evaluación de Impacto del Programa de Mejoramiento de la Educación Inicial en Ayacucho, Huancavelica y Huánuco
15 August, 2018
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15 June, 2017
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Evaluación de las EDEP: la mirada desde la perspectiva del evaluador
Lima-Perú, 3 May, 2016
Conversatorio "Evaluaciones de Diseño y Ejecución Presupuestal: una herramienta para la mejora de la gestión pública"
Selected Publications
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Medidas de protección social del gobierno peruano en época de la Covid-19
2022 Lorena Alcazar, Vanessa Rojas, Emilio López de Romaña
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