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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Chapter in BookDesigualdad en la academia: mujeres en las ciencias sociales
Oportunidades y barreras en la trayectoria de las científicas sociales peruanas
2018 Lorena Alcazar, Maria Balarin, Andrea Román
This chapter is part of these efforts and is the result of the Grupo Sofía’s agenda, which aims to deepen the analysis of the disparities between women’s and men’s experiences in the academic labour market in the social sciences. Specifically, we analyse the opportunities and barriers faced by Peruvian women social scientists during their academic […]
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Chapter in BookDesigualdad en la academia: mujeres en las ciencias sociales
El entorno de la investigación social en el Perú
2018 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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Chapter in BookDesigualdad en la academia: mujeres en las ciencias sociales
¿Cómo abordar el estudio de las inequidades de género en el mundo académico?
2018 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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Social protection, economic opportunity strategies and women’s empowerment in Peru
2018 Lorena Alcazar, Juan Jose Diaz
This article presents results from two evaluation studies aimed at providing evidence of the impact of social protection programmes on women’s well-being. Specifically, the studies evaluate the impacts of the Peruvian programmes Haku Wiñay and Juntos on women’s empowerment dimensions, such as decision-making on household resources, gender roles and ideology, self-esteem and domestic violence. 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
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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Transparencia y rendición de cuentas en los hospitales públicos: el caso peruano
2000 Lorena Alcazar, Raúl Andrade
This study analyses the problem of corruption in public hospitals from an institutional perspective. The specific objectives were: i) to analyse the influence of the different institutional structures of the organisations providing health services on the type and degree of corruption; and ii) to make policy recommendations to combat these problems based on the causal […]
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Institutions, politics and contracts: the privatization attempt of the water and sanitation utility of Lima, Peru
2000 Lorena Alcazar, Lixin Colin Xu, Ana María Zuluaga
In 1989-90 Peru underwent a severe economic crisis with a 5.4 percent decline in GDP and inflation peaking at an annual rate of over 7,600 percent (World Bank 1998). The newly elected President, Alberto Fujimori, embarked on a program of sweeping structural reforms that turned Peru from a state-directed to a market-led economy. The reforms […]
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Alternativas para mejorar el sistema de bonificaciones a plazas docentes de zonas rurales y otras condiciones especiales
2000 Lorena Alcazar, Pierina Pollarolo
The general objective of this study is to improve the system of financial bonuses linked to rural teaching posts and other special conditions. The latter can be geographical (high altitude, border, rural or jungle areas), related to the type of population (bilingual or multicultural area) or areas requiring teachers with special skills (speaking the language […]
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Trabajando y estudiando en América Latina rural: decisiones críticas de los adolescentes
2001 Lorena Alcazar, Eric Wachtenheim, Silvio Rendón
This paper assesses the determinants of school attendance and work for rural adolescents between the ages of 10 and 18 between 1997-1998 for a selected sample of Latin American countries. The present research is based on household surveys, applied to members of different ages and backgrounds, and designed to make inferences about the determinants of […]
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La regulación y el manejo de controversias de los sectores de telecomunicaciones y electricidad: un análisis institucional comparativo
2000 Lorena Alcazar, Pierina Pollarolo
Se analiza desde una perspectiva comparativa los marcos regulatorios de los sectores de telecomunicaciones y de electricidad con especial énfasis en su capacidad para resolver conflictos al interior del sector.
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Projects
- Review of the main education programs for improvement of Basic Education in Peru.February 2011 - May 2011
- Participation in the panel on Protection and development of at-risk and abandoned population – INABIFNovember 2010 - March 2011
- Preparation of material for the sectorial note on Social ProtectionNovember 2010 - February 2011
- Survey on follow-up of expenditure and public services in Paraguay (I and II)November 2010 - December 2010
- Design of a differentiated graduation strategy for beneficiary homes of the Juntos ProgramMay 2010 - July 2010
- Designing a framework for the social expenditure analysisApril 2010 - April 2011
- Study of the relation between knowledge of standards for expected developmental results; understanding of the present condition of children in the houApril 2010 - June 2010
- Preparation of the Agenda for the Millennium Goals Compliance ReportMarch 2010 - May 2010
- Qualitative study on formalization barriers between micro businesses in El Cercado de Lima.January 2010 - January 2010
- Quick Institutional Assessment of the Comprehensive Nutritional School Program of the PRONAAAJanuary 2010 - April 2010
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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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