See Full CV - Andrés Solimano

February 2008
ANDRES SOLIMANO
Resumé
I. Personal Profile
Date of Birth:
May 13, 1956
Nationality:
Chilean-Italian
Civil Status:
Married, three children
Office:
United Nations-Economic Commission for Latin America
and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
Av. Dag Hammarskjöld 3477
Vitacura, Santiago
Chile
Tel. (562) 210-2244
Tel. (562) 242-2600
andres.solimano@cepal.org
asolimano@gmail.com
E-mail:
Website:
www.andressolimano.com
II. Academic and Professional Degrees
1984
Ph.D. in Economics. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.),USA.
1979
Master in Economics. Catholic University of Chile.
1979
Economist. Catholic University of Chile.
III. Positions
August 2001R
Regional Advisor, Economic Commission for Latin America and the
Caribbean, United Nations
October 2000 -July 2001
Economic Adviser, Research Department, World Bank
July 1997–Sept. 2000
Director, Country Management Unit, Colombia, Ecuador and
Venezuela, Latin America and Caribbean Region, The World
Bank
Feb. 1996-June 1997
Executive Director for Chile and Ecuador
Board of Executive Directors
Executive Director for Chile Inter-American Development Bank and
Inter-American Investment Corporation
1994 - 1997
Representative for Chile
Donors Committee, Multilateral Investment Fund.
1994 – Feb. 1996
Alternate Executive Director for Argentina and Chile
Board of Executive Directors
Inter-American Development Bank.
Executive Director for Chile and Colombia
Board of Executive Directors
Inter-American Investment Corporation.
1988 – 1994
Senior Economist, The World Bank. Macroeconomic and Growth
Division. Vice-presidency of Development Economics.
1984 – 1988
Economist, PREALC/OIT, Regional Program for Employment Latin
America and the Caribbean, International Labor Office, United
Nations.
1982 - 1987
Research Fellow, CIEPLAN, Corporación de Investigaciones
Económicas para América Latina.
Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics,
Catholic University of Chile.
IV. Management of Current Projects.
Project Director. International Mobility of Talent. Multi-country
Project sponsored by the World Institute of Development Economic
Research, based in Helsinki, Finland along with UN-ECLAC.
Project Coordinator. REDIMA (Macroeconomic Dialogue Network)
of Central Banks and Ministries of Finance of Latin American
Countries supported by the European Commission and executed by
ECLAC.
Project Coordinator International Migration in Latin America,
ECLAC-IDB
Project Coordinator. Social Protection and International Migration in
Latin America. ECLAC-BID.
V. Board Memberships
Currently
General Editor: Book Series Development and Inequality in the
Market Economy. The University of Michigan Press.
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Currently
Board (chairman), International Center for Globalization and
Development, (CIGLOB) Santiago, Chile.
Currently
Member of the Editorial Board Series on Central Banking, Analysis,
and Economic Policies, Central Bank of Chile.
1998-2000
Member of Steering Committee of Post-Conflict Fund, World Bank.
1996 - 1997
Chairman, Programming Committee
Board of Executive Directors
Inter-American Development Bank
VI. Invited Lectures
1991-2007
Georgetown University, United States
Yale University, United States
University of Paris III- Sorbonne Nouvelle
Columbia University, United States.
University of Havana, Cuba
Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University, United Kingdom.
Academy of Sciences of Prague, Czech Republic.
Toulaine University, New Orleans.
University of Toronto, Canada.
Moscow University, Russia.
Cambridge University, United Kingdom.
University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy.
Swedish Secretariat of International Cooperation, Stockholm, Sweden.
Economic Policy Analysis Unit, Bolivia.
Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico, Mexico.
VII. Books Published
2008
The International Mobility of Talent: Types, Causes and Development Impact,
Editor, Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York.
2006
Vanishing Growth in Latin American. The Experience Towards the End of the XX
Century, Editor. Edward Elgar Publishers, UK and USA.
2006.
La Mesa Coja. Prosperidad y Desigualdad en el Chile Democrático. Colección
CIGLOB. Santiago, Chile (with Molly Pollack).
2005
Political Crises, Social Conflict and Economic Development. The Political
Economy of the Andean Region, Editor, Edward Elgar Publishers, Cheltenham, UK
and Northampton, MA, USA.
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2002
Crisis and Dollarization in Ecuador. Stability, Growth and Social Equity. Editor,
Directions in Development, The World Bank (with Paul Beckerman).
2001
Colombia: Essays on Conflict, Peace and Development, Andrés Solimano,
Editor, The World Bank, SIDA. Conflict Prevention and Post-conflict
Reconstruction Series .
2000
Distributive Justice and Economic Development. The Case of Chile and
Developing Countries, Editor, The University of Michigan Press, (with Eduardo
Aninat and Nancy Birdsall).
2000
La Desigualdad Social. Valores, Crecimiento y El Estado, Andrés Solimano,
Editor, Fondo de Cultura Económica, México.
1998
Social Inequality: Values, Growth and the State, Editor, The University
of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor.
1998
Los Caminos de la Prosperidad. Ensayos del Crecimiento y Desarrollo,
Andrés Solimano, Editor, Fondo de Cultura Económica, México.
1996
Road-Maps to Prosperity: Essays on Growth and Development,
Editor,University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor.
1994
Rebuilding Capitalism: Alternative Roads after Socialism and Dirigisme,
Editor, The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor (with Osvaldo Sunkel
and Mario I. Blejer).
1993
Striving for Growth after Adjustment. The Role of Capital Formation,
Editor, World Bank, Washington D.C. (with Luis Servén).
1993
"Reforma Económica: Experiencias Comparadas" (Economic Report: Compared
Experiences) Pensamiento Iberoamericano, Editor, No. 22/23 (Vol. I y II), Madrid,
Spain.
VIII. Committees and Fellowships
1996-2001
Member Editorial Committee Revista de Análisis Económico.
Georgetown University-Ilades, Santiago - Chile.
1992-1993
Advisory Committee. Research Center Network. Inter-American Development
Bank.
1986
Member Organizing Committee. VI Latin American Meeting of the
Econometric Society. Cordoba, Argentina.
1982 - 1984
Doctoral Fellow, Inter-American Foundation, United States.
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1979 - 1980
Master-Fellow, Catholic University of Chile.
IX. Teaching Experience.
1999
Economic Development of Latin America. Georgetown University, Washington,
DC, United States (Professorial Lecturer).
1992
Theory of Economic Development, American University, Washington, D.C.,
United States (Professorial Lecturer).
1986-1987
Lecturer, Georgetown University, Master of Economics Program,
Georgetown University-Ilades.
1982-1987
Macroeconomic Theory. Catholic University of Chile.
International Macroeconomics, Catholic University of Chile.
Econometrics, Catholic University of Chile (Associate Professor).
1983
Lecturer, Macroeconomics I, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
X. Articles, Book Chapters, and Working Papers
2007
“Migraciones Internacionales, Remesas y el Desarrollo Económico:
La Experiencia Latinoamericana” Serie Macroeconomía del Desarrollo
# 59, CEPAL.
2007
Social Protection and Asset Accumulation by the Middle Class and the Poor
in Latin America” Chapter 7 in C. Moser, Editor, Reducing Global Poverty. The
Case for Asset Accumulation. Brookings Institution, Washington DC.
2006
“The Search of for Macroeconomic Stability and Growth under Persistent
Inequality: The Case of Chile” (with M. Pollack) in G. A. Cornia editor Pro-Poor
Macroeconomics. Potential and Limitations. Palgrave, MacMillan. UK and US.
2005
“The Challenge of African Development: A View from Latin America” in
Jan Joost Teunissen and Age Akkerman (editors) Africa in the World Economy.
The National, Regional and International Challenges, FONDAD,The Hague,
Netherlands.
2005
“International Migration, Capital Flows and the Global Economy: A Long Run
View” Series Macroeconomics of Development # 35, ECLAC (with Nathalie
Watts).
2004
“Globalizing Talent and Human Capital: Implications for Developing Countries”,
Towards Pro-Poor Policies, Aid, Institutions and Globalization edited by Betrtil
Tungodden, Nicholas Stern and Ivar Kolstad, Annual World Bank Conference on
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Development economics for Europe, Oslo, Norway. The World Bank and Oxford
University Press. Also Working Paper # 15, ECLAC, Santiago, Chile.
2004
“Development Cycles, Political Regimes and International Migration: Argentina in
the 20th Century” in G. Borjas and Paper Presented at the conference Poverty,
International Migration and Asylum” Helsinki, sep. 27-28, 2002. Working Paper
#22, 2003, ECLAC, Santiago, Chile.
2003
“Development Cycles, Political Regimes and International Migration: Argentina in
the 20th Century”, WIDER-United Nations University Discussion Paper # 2003/X.
2003
“Elusive Prosperity, Volatile Politics and International Migration: Experiences from
Latin America” WIDER Angle, United Nations University, spring issue.
2003
“Institutional Challenges of Globalization and the Developing Countries” Chapter
20, in A. Dutt and J. Ros editors Development Economics and Structuralist
Macroeconomics. Essays in Honor of Lance Taylor, Edward Elgar, UK.
2003
“Globalización y Migración Internacional: La Experiencia Latinoamericana”
Revista de la Cepal, 80.
2003
“Remittances by Emigrants: Issues and Evidence” Macroeconomía del Desarrollo,
# 26. ECLAC.
2002
“Globalizing Talent and Human Capital: Implications for Developing
Countries” Series, Macroeconomics of Development #15, ECLAC.
2001
“International Migration and the Global Economic Order: An Overview”
Policy Research Working Paper 2720. The World Bank.
2001
“The Evolution of World Income Distribution. Assessing the Impact of
Globalization”ECLAC, Working paper 11, Series. Macroeconomic
of Development.
2000
‘Foreword,’ in Urban Poor Perceptions of Violence and Exclusion in Colombia,
Caroline Moser, Cathy McIlwaine, The World Bank, SIDA. Conflict Prevention
and Post Conflict Reconstruction Series.
2000
“Economic Growth under Alternative Development Strategies: Latin America from
the 1940s to the 1990s” in F. Coricelli, R. Di Mateo and F. Hahn (eds) Growth and
Development. Theory Empirical Evidence and Country Experiences...
1999
“Beyond Unequal Development: An Overview” Policy, Research Working Paper
2041, The World Bank.
1999
“Globalization and National Development at the End of the 20th Century: Tensions
and Challenges” Policy Research Working Paper 2137, The World Bank.
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1997
"The Chilean Economy in the 1990s: On Interpreting a "Golden Age" in L. Taylor
(ed.) After Neoliberalism, The University of Michigan Press.
1996
"Saving and Investment: Paradigms, Puzzles and Policies" The World Bank
Research Observer, Vol. II, No.1, February (with K. Schmidt-Hebbel y L.Servén).
1996
"Growth, Equity and the Environment in Chile: Issues and Evidence" (with P.
Meller y R. O'Ryan) World Development. North-Holland.
1994
"Rebuilding Capitalism, East Europe" CEO International Strategies. International
Media Partners, New York.
1994
"Adjustment and Income Distribution in Chile" (with M. Marcel) in B. Borsworth,
R. Dornbusch and R. Laban (eds.) The Chilean Economy: Performance and
Challenges Brookings Institution.
1993
"The Post-Socialist Transition in Comparative Perspective: Policy Issues and Recent
Experiences” World Development Vol. 21, No. 11, November, North-Holland.
1993
"Chile" in L. Taylor (ed). The Rocky Road to Reform: Income Distribution, Politics
and Adjustment in the Developing World. The MIT Press.
1993
"Economic Instability and Aggregate Investment" (with Robert Pindyck) in Olivier
Blanchard and Stanley Fischer (eds). NBER Macroeconomic Annual, 1993, The
MIT Press.
1993
"Debt Crisis, Adjustment and Capital Formation in Developing Countries: Where
Do We Stand?" (with L. Servén) World Development, January.
1992
"How Private Investment Reacts to Changing Macroeconomic Conditions.
The Case of Chile in the 1980s" in A. Chhibber et.al. (eds) Reviving Private
Investment. North-Holland.
1992
"Private Investment and Macroeconomic Adjustment: A Survey"
(with Luis Servén) in The World Bank Research Observer, Vol. 7 No. 1, January.
1992
"Economic Adjustment and Investment Performance in Developing Countries:
The Experience of the 1980s" (with L. Servén) in V. Corbo, S. Fischer and
S. Webb (eds). Adustment Lending Revisited. Policies to Restore Growth.
A World Bank Symposium.
1992
"Economic Growth and Income Distribution in Chile: Macroeconomic Trade-offs
Revisited". Revista de Análisis Económico; November, Georgetown UniversityIlades, Santiago-Chile.
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1991
"Stabilization Policies in Chile Revisited" (with Vittorio Corbo) in M. Bruno, S.
Fischer, H. Helpman and N. Liviatan (eds) Lessons from Economic Stabilization
and it’s Aftermath. The MIT Press.
1991
"The Economies of Central and Eastern Europe: An Historical and International
Perspective" in V. Corbo, F. Coricelli and J. Bossak (eds). Reforming Central and
Eastern European Economies. Initial Results and Challenges. A World Bank
Symposium.
1990
“Inflation and Growth in the Transition from Socialism: The Case of Bulgaria”
World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series # 659. World Bank.
1990
"Inversión Privada y Ajuste Macroeconómico. La Experiencia Chilena en la
Década del '80". Colección Estudios Cieplan #28, Santiago, Chile.
1989
"Inflación y los Costos de Estabilizar: Aspectos Conceptuales, Casos Históricos y
Experiencias Recientes". El Trimestre Económico, Fondo de Cultura Económica
October; Mexico.
1989
"Inflation and the Costs of Stabilization: Country Experience, Conceptual Issues and
Policy Lessons". The World Bank Research Observer, Vol. 5 #2, July.
1988
"Mercado de Trabalho: Quatro Enfoques em Busca de um Paradigma". Pesquisa e
Planejamento Económico. IPEA. Brazil. December.
1988
"Política de Remuneraciones en Chile: Experiencia Pasada, Instrumentos y
Opciones a Futuro". Colección Estudios CIEPLAN #25. December. Santiago,
Chile.
1988
"Enfoques Alternativos sobre el Mercado del Trabajo: Una Evaluación Teórica".
Revista de Análisis Económico. Vol. 3, No.2. Georgetown University-Ilades,
November, Santiago ,Chile
1988
"El Impacto Macroeconómico de los Salarios Mínimos en Chile". Revista de
Análisis Económico. Vol. 3, No. 1, Georgetown University-Ilades, June. Santiago,
Chile.
1987
"Empleo y Salarios Reales: Un Análisis Macroeconómico de Desequilibrio para
Chile y Brasil", Pesquisa e Planejamento Económico, IPEA. Brazil. (December).
1987
"Política Salarial, Nivel de Actividad y Restricción Externa: Guatemala 1980-1984",
in Política salarial, inflación y restricción externa, PREALC, OIT-NU.
1987
"A Simple Macro Model for a Small Open Economy Facing a Binding External
Constraint (Chile)," (with Patricio Meller), Journal of Development Economics, 26,
25-35. North-Holland.
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1987
"Stabilization and Adjustment Policies and Programmes". Country Study No. 10.
Chile (with José Pablo Arellano and René Cortázar) WIDER-UNU, Helsinki,
Finland.
1986
"Contractionary Devaluation in the Southern Cone: The Case of Chile," Journal of
Development Economics. North-Holland.
1986
"Aspectos Conceptuales Sobre Política Cambiaria Relevantes para América
Latina," in R. Cortázar (ed.) Políticas Macroeconómicas: Una Perspectiva
Latinoamericana, CIEPLAN. Santiago, Chile.
1986
"Salarios Reales y Empleo Bajo Distintos Regímenes Macroeconómicos",
Cuadernos de Economía, December; Catholic University of Chile.
1986
"Liberalización Financiera Interna y Crisis: Aspectos Teóricos y Consideraciones
de Política Económica", en Deuda Interna y Estabilidad Financiera: Aspectos
Analíticos, C. Massad and R. Zalher Grupo Editor Latinoamericano, ECLAC.
1985
"Reactivación Interna Bajo una Severa Restricción Externa: Análisis de Distintas
Políticas Económicas", en Colección Estudios CIEPLAN N. 16 (with Patricio
Meller).
1984
"Devaluation, Unemployment and Inflation: Essays on Macroeconomic
Adjustment", MIT Doctoral Thesis, May.
1984
"Cuantificación de Algunas Políticas Económicas orientadas a Generar Empleo," en
Colección Estudios CIEPLAN N. 14 (with Patricio Meller).
1983
"Reducir Costos del Trabajo: Cuánto Empleo Genera?”, in Cuadernos de Economía,
Universidad Católica de Chile, December.
1983
"Desempleo en Chile: Interpretación y Políticas Económicas Alternativas", en
Reconstrucción Económica para la Democracia (with Patricio Meller); Ed.
Aconcagua. Santiago, Chile.
1981
"La Rebaja en Cotizaciones Previsionales y su Impacto sobre el Empleo Industrial:
Una Estimación para el Período 1974-1978," Notas Técnicas CIEPLAN N. 48.
1980
"Intensidades Factoriales de las Exportaciones de Empresas Multinacionales", in
Documento de Trabajo N. 67, Universidad Católica de Chile, Instituto de Economía.
1979
"Análisis Econométrico de las Exportaciones de Algunos Productos Industriales,
Mineros y Agrícolas", in Documento de Trabajo, N. 3, Universidad Católica de
Chile, Instituto de Economía.
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