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Expert image - Ricardo Torres Perez Ricardo Torres Perez
University of Havana, Cuba
Visiting Scholar
05.08.2019 - 30.08.2019
The Bank of Finland Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT)

RICARDO TORRES PÉREZ (Villa Clara, 1981). He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Havana. He is currently full professor and deputy director of the Centro de Estudios de la Economía Cubana (CEEC) at the University of Havana. He was a Japanese government scholar at Hitotsubashi University in Japan (2007-2009) and visiting researcher at Harvard University (2011), Ohio State University (2012), Columbia University (2013), American University (2015), Universidad de La República (Uruguay, 2016, 2018). He has participated in conferences and courses in universities and research centers in several countries in Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa and the United States, and has published several articles in international journals and books. Among his most recent publications are Policies for Economic Growth: Cuba’s New Era, en Cuba’s Economic Change in Comparative Perspective (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 2014), No More Free Lunch: Reflections on the Cuban Economic Reform Process and Challenges for Transformation (Springer, New York, 2014), Economic transformations in Cuba: a review (Third World Quarterly, 2016) and Updating the Cuban Economy: The First 10 Years (Social Research: An International Quarterly, 2017). He is the chief editor of the series Miradas a la Economía Cubana (Views on the Cuban Economy) and a columnist at Progreso Semanal/Progreso Weekly.