Ricardo Fort Meyer
Senior Researcher
PhD in Economic Development - Wageningen University
rfort@grade.org.pe
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 rural areas as well as marginal urban neighborhoods in Peru and in several other countries.
In recent years he has been Visiting Researcher at the University of Nijmegen in the Netherlands and The University of Chicago in the United States. He is the author of several books and academic articles on these subjects and has worked as a consultant for institutions such as the World Bank, the United Nations, FAO, the Inter-American Development Bank, IFAD, among others.
Publications
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Chapter in BookTomando impulso en la agricultura peruana: oportunidades para aumentar la productividad y mejorar la competitividad del sector
Productividad de la agricultura peruana
2017 Ricardo Fort, Mauricio Espinoza
How productive is Peruvian agriculture? What has been driving productivity growth in the sector in recent years, and are the traditional sources of productivity growth sustainable? Are there opportunities to accelerate productivity growth going forward by tapping into new sources of growth? And do the answers to these questions differ by region? In the Costa […]
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Inversión sin planificación. La calidad de la inversión pública en los barrios vulnerables de Lima
2017 Álvaro Espinoza, Ricardo Fort
This book seeks to measure the quality of public investment in vulnerable urban neighbourhoods (BUVs) through three analytical exercises. First, it characterises the types of urban spaces in the country and analyses public investment in them. Then, it proposes and applies a methodology to measure the quality of such investment on the basis of case studies […]
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Mejor inversión pública para evitar más desastres: brechas y prioridades de infraestructura en los barrios vulnerables de Lima
2017 Álvaro Espinoza, Ricardo Fort
Policy document that provides inputs for the design and implementation of infrastructure plans with a territorial approach through the analysis of infrastructure gaps and priorities and the quality of public investment in three vulnerable urban neighbourhoods in Lima.
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Chapter in BookOtro urbanismo para Lima: más allá del mejoramiento de barrios
Determinantes de la fragmentación de la inversión pública urbana: evidencia empírica en los barrios populares de Lima
2017 Álvaro Espinoza, Ricardo Fort
The article presents empirical research that analyses the social, political and administrative factors that diminish the efficiency and effectiveness of the National Public Investment System (SNIP), resulting in the limited scope and inadequate prioritisation of public works in human settlements.
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Otro urbanismo para Lima: más allá del mejoramiento de barrios
2017 Jitka Molnárová, Luis Rodríguez Rivero, Álvaro Espinoza, Ricardo Fort
A set of articles that analyse, from various points of view and disciplines, the different aspects involved in the development of the integral urban project area of the metropolitan programme Barrio Mío. Its main contribution is to show and analyse the approach and the concrete and complete methodology with which urban planning in the working-class […]
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Projects
Media
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Opinion Article, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Zonas prioritarias para la prevención y control del contagio del COVID-19 en Lima
April 2, 2020 Urbanization and sustainable cities
El equipo del área de Urbanización y Ciudades Sostenibles de GRADE1 ha elaborado una propuesta de identificación de zonas prioritarias para la prevención y control del contagio del COVID-19 en la ciudad de Lima, utilizando data geoespacial del Censo Nacional de Población y Vivienda 2017. Nuestro objetivo es contribuir a la efectividad de las medidas del gobierno […]
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Property tax: innovate for better governing, by Ricardo Fort and Alvaro Espinoza
February 14, 2019 Employment, productivity and innovation
Our researchers Ricardo Fort and Álvaro Espinoza shared a concrete and low cost proposal in order to improve the municipal governance and to increase the property tax collection using modern technology. Read the full text in Gestión Newspaper.
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Ricardo Fort gives his thoughts on the challenges of small-scale agriculture
July 16, 2018 Rural development and agriculture
How to advance in the challenges of small-scale agriculture? Our senior researcher, Ricardo Fort, gives his thoughts in La República newspaper: “The development of the agro-export sector is beneficial, but it could be more if we built cooperative platforms between all the sectors from the State that allow an apprenticeship of what the agro-export sector has already advanced and transmit […]
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The quality of public investment without land planning, by Alvaro Espinoza and Ricardo Fort
June 7, 2017 State reform and public institutions, Urbanization and sustainable cities
Why is urban public investment poorly prioritized, disjointed and fragmented? Read the article by our researchers, Álvaro Espinoza y Ricardo Fort, published in La Mula, with the main findings of their study on the quality of public investment without land planning in vulnerable neighborhoods in Lima.
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More than 57% of public works in vulnerable areas of Lima is not priority
April 7, 2017 State reform and public institutions, Urbanization and sustainable cities
The newspaper Gestión gathers the findings of our researchers Álvaro Espinoza and Ricardo Fort about the quality of public investment without territorial planning in vulnerable urban settlements of Lima. They found that around half of the public investment in highly vulnerable settlements is for public works of low priority and impact. This due to the investment that […]
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Selected Publications
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¿Es necesaria una Estrategia Nacional de Desarrollo Rural en el Perú? Aportes para el debate y propuesta de implementación
2015 Ricardo Fort, María Isabel Remy, Héctor Paredes
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