Lecture at the Bildner Center: Recent Changes in the Cuban Economic Model

Omar Everleny Pérez Villanueva (Centro de Estudios de la Economía Cubana, Universidad de la Habana) will deliver a lecture at the Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies on Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 4:00pm. The moderator will be Mauricio Font (Bildner Center).  The lecture, which takes place in Room 9205/06 at the Graduate Center, will be in Spanish. The Graduate Center is located at 365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th Street) in Manhattan, New York.

Omar Everleny Pérez Villanueva is Professor at the University of Havana and Director, of the Center for the Study of the Cuban Economy. Professor Everleny earned his doctorate at the University of Havana, M.A. at CIDE/AC (Mexico), and B.A. at the University of Havana. He has taught or lectured at various universities in Cuba, the U.S., Japan, France, Spain, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Mexico, China, and other countries. Currently he is Visiting Professor at ILAS-SIPA, Columbia University. He has published more than 70 works on Cuban and international economies. He is co-author of Cuban Economy at the Start of the Twenty-First Century (with Jorge Domínguez and L. Barberia); Reflexiones sobre la economía cubana; Miradas a la economía cubana, Volumes I and II; Cincuenta años de la economía cubana; and Cuban Economic and Social Development: Policy Reforms and Challenges in the 21st Century.

Mauricio Font is director of the Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies and professor of sociology at The Graduate Center and Queens College, City University of New York. His research examines problems of development and reform in Brazil, Cuba and Latin America as well as international cooperation in the Western Hemisphere.

The lecture is free and open to the public, but please reserve by sending an email to bildner@gc.cuny.edu

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