Urbanization and Sustainable Cities
The last 50 years have seen a fourfold increase in Peru’s urban population, a process that has added 20 million people to its cities. This accelerated urban expansion has occurred mainly through the informal, unplanned occupation of the territory—which has generated cities where vast areas do not have adequate access to basic services, public spaces, urban infrastructure, and economic opportunities in general.
GRADE’s urban development research agenda seeks to help reduce the exclusion and inefficiency associated with such disorderly growth, and to prevent such expansion patterns from continuing to reproduce indefinitely. For this, GRADE has focused its efforts on the development and adaptation of accessible and low-cost technological tools that, on the one hand, facilitate the detailed and systematic analysis of urban problems, and on the other, help the relevant public and private stakeholders to improve the governance of cities—especially in their expansion areas.
The tools and analysis developed by GRADE can be adapted and applied in the rest of the Global South, where urbanization processes are replicating several of the patterns already observed in Peru. For this reason, GRADE seeks to promote cooperation channels that would allow the efficient and direct transfer of experiences and knowledge in the South-South axis.
Senior Researchers
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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 […]
Adjunct Researchers
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Álvaro Espinoza Benza
Master en Political Science - New School of Social Research
Álvaro graduated in Economics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru and holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from the New School of Social Research in New York. He is an Adjunct Researcher at GRADE. His work has focused on public management, institutional economics and urban development. Álvaro has a broad experience as a […]
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Projects
News
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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Gestión: 235 food markets in Lima are identified as potential sources of COVID-19 contagion
April 7, 2020 Urbanization and sustainable cities
“If people become infected in these areas, the virus will start to run very fast due to the existing conditions. So what is the area with the greatest potential for contagion in that territory? The markets and supermarkets.” Gestión.pe spoke with Ricardo Fort, senior researcher at GRADE, who explained that the research of GRADE’s Urbanization and Sustainable […]
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Comment, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Ricardo Fort en Ideeleradio: Zonas prioritarias para la prevención y control del contagio del COVID-19 en Lima
April 6, 2020 Urbanization and sustainable cities
“Si pensamos en estas zonas, hay mucha movilidad de gente que sale a diario a tratar trabajar para conseguir ingresos, o incluso a hacer las comprar del diario, regresan a sus hogares donde hay población vulnerable, y se aumenta la posibilidad de contagio”. Ricardo Fort, investigador principal de GRADE, explicó en Ideeleradio el análisis de zonas prioritarias para la […]
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Opinion Article, Media GRADE, GRADE frente al COVID-19
Potenciales focos de contagio del COVID-19: mercados y supermercados
April 5, 2020 Urbanization and sustainable cities
Los mercados de abasto y supermercados son, y seguirán siendo por un tiempo, los principales puntos de aglomeración en la ciudad. Complementando nuestro análisis de áreas de alta vulnerabilidad ante el virus en Lima, presentamos aquí la identificación georeferenciada de mercados y supermercados que atienden a esta población, así como sugerencias para mejorar la estrategia […]
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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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Bangkok: Members of GRADE joined the Think Tank Initiative 2018 as panelists and workshop participants
November 26, 2018 Rural development and agriculture, Education and learning, Employment, productivity and innovation, Ethnicity, gender and citizenship, Methodologies for research and evaluation of policy and programmes, Poverty and equality, Natural resources, extractive industries and social conflict, State reform and public institutions, Health and nutrition, Urbanization and sustainable cities
After almost a decade of organizational support, the Think Tank Initiative brought together representatives of think tanks, policymakers, donors and other research-to-policy actors for a final Think Tank Initiative Exchange to mark the last year of the program. This Exchange built on a decade of TTI lessons, experiences and insights on the challenges of building […]
Events
- 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