Social Consequences and Prospects of Economic Restructuring and Reform in Cuba

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Tuesday, September 11, 2001 at 2:00 PM
Location: Room 9205 (Ninth Floor)
Graduate School and University Center
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Claes Brundenius
Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Center of Development Research
Copenhagen, Denmark

Claes Brundenius is Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Development Research, (Copenhagen, Denmark) since 1997. He is at present working on problems of economic restructuring in transition economies, notably Cuba, Vietnam and China. Between 1976 and 1996 he was Research Fellow (and between 1987 and 1992 Deputy Director) at the Research Policy Institute of Lund University, Sweden, where he was directing studies on Science and Technology Policies in the Third World. He has a PhD in Economic History from Lund University and has also done undergraduate studies at Brandeis University, USA.

He has been serving on various Research Councils and Editorial Boards and is at present member of the Reference Group of the Swedish Research Council for Development Research and of the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Development Research.

He has written extensively on problems of developing countries and his books include:

Globalization and Third World Socialism: Cuba and Vietnam (with John Weeks), Palgrave, London and New York, 2001.

Reconstruction or Destruction? Science and Technology at Stake in Transition Economies (with Bo Göransson and Prasada Reddy), Universities Press/Orient Longman, Hyderabad and London, 1999.

New Technologies and Global Restructuring. The Third World at a Crossroads (with Bo Göransson), Taylor Graham, London, 1993.

The Cuban Economy. Measurement and Analysis of Socialist Performance (with Andrew Zimbalist), Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1989.

Revolutionary Cuba. The Challenge of Economic Growth with Equity, Westview Press, Boulder, 1984.

Claes Brundenius' paper is available at: www.cdr.dk/working_papers

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