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Javier Escobal
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| Javier Escobal is an economist with a masters and doctoral studies from New York University and a PhD. degre in Development Economics at Wageningen University. Currently he is Senior Researcher in GRADE. In the area of Economy and Rural Development, his work has concentrated on evaluating the impact of the macroeconomic adjustment and structural reforms in the farming sector. In the area of Poverty and Equity he has focused his analysis on rural poverty, specifically in determining the role played by public goods and services in raising the standards of living among the rural poor. In the area of Macroeconomic Analysis his work centers on the analysis of methodologies used to prepare short term prognoses of the level of economic activity. In 2000, the Global Development Network (GDN) granted Javier Escobal and Maximo Toreo with the Award for Outstanding Research on Development for their joint work on the geographical dimension to development. In 2001, Escobal was distinguieshed with the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship to continuie pursuing his research about the links between rural producers and markets. During the same year, at the Global Development Network (GDN) annual conference, Javier Escobal was awarded with the medal for best research in Infrastructure and Development, for his work on the measuement of transaction costs in peruvian agriculture. He is a member of the Permanent Seminar on Agrarian Research (SEPIA), the International Network of Research on Production Systems (RIMISP) and the Global Development Network (GDN). He has been an advisor to the Ministry of Economy and a member of INDECOPI’S Commission on Technical Regulations. Currently he is a Principal Investigator for Peru of the project "Young Lives: an international study of childhood poverty", a longitudinal study developed also in Ethiopia, India (Andhra Pradesh) and Vietnam. The Project follows more than 2,000 children in poverty conditions in Peru during the first fifteen years of their life.
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