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Archibald R. M. Ritter
BA (Queen's); MA (Western Ontario); PhD (Texas)


DEPARTMENT:

Department of Economics and the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs,
Loeb Building, Room D-802,
Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive,
Ottawa, K1S 5B6, Canada.

Chair, Economics Department, 2001-2004

COMMUNICATIONS:

TELEPHONE: (613) 520-2600 ext.: 6668;
FAX: (613) 520-3906;
E-Mail: Arch_Ritter@.carleton.ca

EDUCATION:

BA Ecoomics, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada, 1964 and
University of St. Andrew's, St. Andrew's, Scotland, 1962-1963
MA Economics, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada, 1965
PhD Economics; (Minor: Latin American Studies,) University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA, 1972

EMPLOYMENT:

Academic Appointment:

1969 - 2008: Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and Department of Economics (Joint Appointment), Carleton University,

Assistant Professor, 1969-1975

Associate Professor, 1975-1992

Professor, 1992 - 2008.

Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus, 2008 - 2011


Other Employment:

1985 - 1988 Senior Economist, Long-Range Planning Unit, Ministry of Planning and National Development, Nairobi, Kenya, (half-time.)

1979 - 1980 Senior Economist (Executive Interchange), Economic Policy and Analysis Sector, Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, Government of Canada.

1973 - 1974 Instituto Latinoamericano para Planificación Económico y Social, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLA), Santiago, Chile.

1979 Research Associate, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

 

Administrative Positions:

Chair, Department of Economics, Carleton University, July 2001 – June 2004

Co-ordinator, Carleton University Economics M.A. Program, at the University of Havana, Havana, Cuba 1994-2001

Senate, Carleton University, 2001-2004

Chair, Senate Financial Review Committee, Carleton University, 2002-2003; 2003-2004

Senate Executive Committee, Carleton University, 2003-2004

Associate Director, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University 1981-1982

 

Voluntary Activities, July 2008 Onwards:

Founding Member of the Board of Directors, Academics for Higher Education and Development (AHED), 2006 onwards;

Treasurer, Academics for Higher Education and Development (AHED), September 2008 onwards;

Interim Director, Cuba Program, Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL), Ottawa Canada, January 1 to December 31, 2009;

Member, Board of Directors, Society for International Development, Ottawa-Gatineau Chapter, 2008 onwards

 

PUBLICATIONS:


REFEREED SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS:

Books:

The Economic Development of Revolutionary Cuba: Strategy and Performance, New York: Praeger 1974, pp. 1-372

Excerpts published in Chinese translation as "Cuba's Development Policy," Journal of the Institute for Latin American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing, China, 1977.

Development Strategy and Structural Adjustment in Chile: From the Unidad Popular to the Concertación, 1970-1992, Ottawa: North-South Institute, 1992.

Articles in Refereed Journals:

"Growth Strategy and Economic Performance in Revolutionary Cuba: Past, Present and Prospective," Social and Economic Studies (Kingston, Jamaica), Volume 21, 3, September 1972, pp. 313-337.

Also republished in part as "Cuba's Development Policy," Journal of the Institute for Latin American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Beijing, China, 1977 (pp. 29-34). (In Chinese Translation).

Republished as "Cuba cerca una strategia per lo sviluppo, Mercurio: Sintesti del pensiero economico e sociale contemporaneo, Rome Italy, XVI:11, November 1973.

"Estrategia por el movilización de los recursos humanos en Cuba Revolucionaria," Cuadernos de Economia, 11, 32: January 1974. pp. 75-109.

"The Transferability of the Socio-Economic Development Models of Revolutionary Cuba," Cuban Studies/Estudios Cubanos, Vol. 7; No. 1, July 1977, pp. 183-204.
"Los Organos del Poder Popular and Participatory Democracy in Cuba: A Preliminary Analysis" Social and Economic Studies, Volume 29, Nos. 2 and 3, June/September, 1980, pp. 193-210.

"Stabilizing the International Copper Market: The Viability and Impacts of Alternate Market Management Arrangements," Canadian Journal of Development Studies, May 1981 (with H. Labib), pp. 70-115.

"The Labour Force, Employment and Unemployment in Kenya," Canadian Journal of Development Studies, Vol. VIII, No. 2, 1987, pp. 203-226.

"El Problema de la deuda de Cuba en monedas convertibles," Revista de la CEPAL No 36, Diciembre 1988, Naciones Unidas, Comisión Economica para America Latina y el Caribe, Santiago de Chile, pp. 115-140.

An English-language version is published in the English version of the same Journal, CEPAL Review, No.36, December 1988, pp. 117-140.

"Cuba's Convertible Currency Debt Problem, 1980-1988,@ North-South, The Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 1988, Vol. XIII, No. 25, pp. 107-136.

"The Cuban Economy in the 1990s: External Challenges and Policy Imperatives", Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Volume 32, Number 3; Fall 1990, pp. 117-149.

"Development Strategy and Structural Adjustment in Chile, 1973-1990," Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Volume 15, No. 30, 1990, pp137-158.

"Perspectivas para el cambio económico y politico en Cuba durante los noventa," Sintesis: Revista Documental de Ciencias Sociales Iberoamericanas, No. 15, Septiembre-Noviembre, 1991, Madrid, pp.375-394.

"Exploring Cuba's Alternate Economic Futures," Cuban Studies/ Estudios Cubanos, Volume 28, 1993, pp.3-32.

"Cuba en los Anos Noventa: Reorientación Económica y Reintegración Internacional" Estudios Internacionales, Santiago, Chile, Julio-Septiembre 1993, 454-479.

"El problema de las compensaciones: quien compensa a quien, por que y como?" Estudios Internacionales, Santiago, Chile, Julio-Septiembre/Octubre-Diciembre, 1994, pp.496-512.

"The Dual Currency Bifurcation of the Cuban Economy in the 1990s: Causes, Consequences and Cures," CEPAL Review, United Nations: Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Santiago Chile, No. 57, December, 1995, pp. 113-132

A Spanish-language version is published in the Spanish edition of the same journal, Revista de la CEPAL, No. 57, Diciembre, 1995, pp.113-132.

"Entrepreneurship, Micro-Enterprise and Public Policy in Cuba in the 1990s: Promotion, Containment or Asphyxiation?" Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, 40:2, Summer 1998, pp. 673-94.

The Tax Regime for Micro-Enterprise in Cuba, CEPAL Review, United Nations: Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, August 2000.

A Spanish language version will be published in the Spanish edition of the same journal, Revista de La CEPAL, August, 2000, pp145-162.

"Cuba: From "Dollarization" to "Eurioization" or Peso-ReConsolidation" Latin American Politics and Society, Summer 2002.

Also forthcoming in James W. Dean, Dominick Salvatore, and Thomas A. Willett (Editors) The Dollarization Debate.

Review Article: “Shifting Realities in ‘Special Period’ Cuba”, Latin American Research Review, Volume 45 No. 3, 2010, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 2010, Forthcoming

“Canada’s Economic Relations with Cuba, 1990 to 2010 and Beyond,” Canadian Foreign Policy, Ottawa Canada, Forthcoming, 2010

 

Guest Editor of Journal:

Estudios Internacionales: Cuba en el Sistema Internacional: Normalización y Integración, Numero Especial, Julio-Septiembre/Octubre-Diciembre, 1994, XXVII, No.107-108.

 

Edited Books:

A. Ritter and D. Pollock (editors), Latin American Prospects for the 1970s: What Kinds of Revolutions?, New York: Praeger 1973, pp. 1-335.

A. Ritter and D. Pollock (editors), Latin American Prospects for the 1980s: Equity, Democratization and Development, New York: Praeger, 1983, pp. 1-330.

A. Ritter, Latin America to the Year 2000: Reactivating Growth, Improving Equity, Sustaining Democracy, New York: Praeger, 1992 with co-editors M. Cameron and D. Pollock, pp. 1-257.

A.Ritter and J.Kirk (editors), Cuba in the International System: Integration and Normalization, London: Macmillan, 1995, pp. 1-294.

The Cuban Economy (Editor) Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, Forthcoming, 2003.

 

Chapters Published in Books:

"The Political Economy of Revolutionary Socialism in Cuba," in J. Chant, G. Paquet, K. Acheson and P. Copes (editors), Canadian Perspectives in Economics, Toronto: Collier-Macmillan, 1972, pp. 1-12.

"Revolution in Latin America: An Overview", in A. Ritter and D. Pollock (editors), Latin American Prospects for the 1970s: What Kinds of Revolutions, New York: Praeger, 1973, pp. 3-29.

"Institutional Strategy and Economic Performance in Revolutionary Cuba", Ibid., pp. 230-259.

"The Transferability of the Socio-Economic Development Models of Revolutionary Cuba," in C. Mesa-Lago (editor), The Role of Cuba in World Affairs, Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1978, pp. 313-331.

"The Authenticity of Participatory Democracy in Cuba in A. Ritter and D. Pollock (editors), Latin American Prospects for the 1980s: Equity, Democratization and Development, New York: Praeger 1983, pp. 182-213.

"Policy-Making in the Mineral Sector: Global, Continental and Regional Dimensions," in J. Pammett and B. Tomlin (editors), The Integration Question: Political Economy and Public Policy in Canada and North America, Toronto: Addison Wesley, 1984; pp. 205-223.

"The Feasibility of Establishing Jointly-Owned Regional Minerals Enterprises (JRMEs) in Sub-Saharan Africa", in E. Lazlo (editor), Arab and African Regional Cooperation for Development, Dublin: Tycooly International, 1984, pp. 52-88.

"The Organs of People's Power and the Communist Party: the Nature of Cuban Democracy," in S. Halebsky and J. Kirk (editors), Cuba: Twenty-five Years of Revolution, 1959-1984, New York: Praeger, 1985, pp. 270-290.

"The International Debt Crisis: Towards Resolution", with David H. Pollock, in Maureen Appel Molot and Brian W. Tomlin (editors) Canada Among Nations, 1985: The Conservative Agenda, James Lorimer and Company, Toronto, 1986, pp. 131-160.

"The Debt Crisis: Contained or Postponed?" (with D.H. Pollock), in Canada and Common Security: The Assertion of Sanity, a collection by members of the Group of 78 and Others, Editor: Penny Sanger, Ottawa: The Group of 78, 1987, pp. 53-56.

"The Cuban Economy in the 1990s: External Challenges and Policy Imperatives", in Horowitz, Irving L., Cuban Communism, 1959-1995, New Brunswick New Jersey: Transaction Books, 1996, pp.337-364

"Cuba in the 1990s: Economic Reorientation and International Reintegration," in J. Kirk and S. Halebsky (editors). Cuba's Struggle for Development: Dilemmas and Strategies, Boulder Colorado: Westview, 1992,

"Prospects for Economic and Political Change in Cuba in the 1990s" in A. Ritter et. al., Latin America to the Year 2000: Reactivating Growth, Improving Equity, Sustaining Democracy, New York: Praeger, 1992, pp. 235-252.

"Stratégie de dévelopement et ajustement structurel au Chili, 1973-1900" in J. del Pozo (editeur) Le Chili de 1970 a 1980: De L'Unité populaire à l'aprés-Pinochet, Montreal: VLB Editeur, 1994, pp127-168.

"Cuba's Economic Strategy and Alternate Futures," in J. Perez-Lopez (editor), Cuba at a Crossroads, Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 1994, pp. 67-93.

"Financial Aspects of Normalizing Cuba's International Relations: The Debt and Compensation Issues," in Cuban Research Institute, Transition in Cuba: New Challenges for U.S. Policy, Miami: Florida International University, 1993.

"The Compensation Issue in U.S.-Cuban Normalization: Who Compensates Whom, Why and How?" in A.Ritter and J.Kirk (Editors), Cuba in the International System: Normalization and Integration, London: MacMillan, 1995, pp259-277.

"Introduction," with J. Kirk in ibid. pp. 1-8

"Implications for Reform Processes in Cuba," in FOCAL, "Helms-Burton and International Business: Legal and Commercial Implications, Ottawa: Focal, 1996.

"The Cuban Economy in the mid-1990s: Structural/Monetary Pathology and Public Policy," in M.A.Centeno and M.Font (Editors) Toward a New Cuba: Legacies of a Revolution, Boulder CO: L.Rienner, forthcoming 1997, pp151-170.

"Internal Obstacles to Cuba's Reinsertion in the Latin American Economy," in F.Leon and Mauricio Font (Editors,) Integración Económica y Democratización: America Latina y Cuba, Santiago Chile, 1998, pp87-116.

"Cuba's Economic Reform Process, 1998: Paralysis and Stagnation," in C. Warren (Editor) Cuba Today: Events Taking Place in Cuba and Ensuing Issues for Canadian Policy, Ottawa: FOCAL, 1999

A. R. M. Ritter, "Canada: From 'Fly In - Fly Out' to Mining Metropolis," in G. McMahon and F. Remi, Large Mine and Community: Socioeconomic and Environmental Effects of Mining in Latin America, Canada and Spain, Washington DC: The World Bank and Ottawa: IDRC, Third Quarter, 2001.

A. R. M. Ritter, "La Aglomeración Minera en Canadá: Estructura, Evolución y Funccionamiento," in Rudolf M. Buitelaar, Extraer Minerales y Producir Desarollo: Potendcialidades y Limitaciones de Aglomeraciones en Torno a la Mineria en América Latina, United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Santiago Chile, and IDRC, Noviembre de 2000

"An Overview of Cuba's Economy in the 200s: Recuperation and/or Relapse," in Archibald R. M. Ritter, The Cuban Economy, (Editor) Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, forthecoming, 2004.

“Economic Illegalities and the Underground Economy in Cuba,” Underground Economy: A Constant Companion, Icfai University Press, Ahmedabad, India, forthcoming, 2008; (reprinted from Background Briefing, RFC-06-01, FOCAL, Ottawa Canada, March 2006)

“Canadian-Cuban Economic Relations: Past, Present and Prospective”, in Robert Wright and Lana Wylie (Editors) The Long Dance: Cuba and Canada in the Castro Era, University of Toronto Press, forthcoming, 2009

 

OTHER SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS:

Articles in Non-Refereed Journals:

"OPEC and the Prospects of the Oil Importing Nations of the Third World," Cooperation Canada, March/April 1975, pp. 9-15.

"The Cuban Revolution: A New Orientation" Current History, February 1978, pp. 53-56 and 83-87.

"Primary Commodity Trade and Developing Countries", North-South Institute, Ottawa, Canada, Briefing 4, October, 1982; pp. 1-12.

Also published by the Overseas Development Institute, London, U.K.: No. 1, July 1982.

"The Latin American Debt Crisis: Causes, Consequences and Prospects" (with D. Pollock), North South Institute, Ottawa, Canada, Briefing 12, October 1985, pp. 1-13.

"La Crisis de la deuda latinoamericana: causas, efectos y perspectivas", Comercio Exterior, 37:1, enero de 1987, Mexico, pp. 18-26.

Also published as: La Crisis de la Deuda en America Latina Causas, Consequencias, y Perspectivas, Documento DE-70, Instituto Latinoamericano de Planificación Económica y Social, U.N., CEPAL, Santiago Chile, pp. 1-49, and as

"Towards Resolution of the Latin American Debt Crisis", Journal of the Institute of Latin American Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Beijing, China, 1985 pp. 55-57. (In Chinese Translation)

"Should Cooperation be Ad Hoc or Institutionalized," with D.H. Pollock, in E. Barot (editor). Proceedings of an International Conference on Current Trends in Inter-American Relations and Cooperation, Ottawa: University of Ottawa, 1986, pp. 12-39.

"Seized Properties vs. Embargo Losses," Hemisphere, V:3, Miami, Florida, Summer 1993.

"The Rise of a Chilean Model of Economic Development?" World Economic Affairs, Spring / Summer 1997, pp. 57-62.

"Cuba's Economic Reform Process, 1998: Paralysis and Stagnation," in World Economic Affairs, Autumn, 1998, pp. 13-20.

"Cuba's Economic Performance and the Challenges Ahead," Canadian Foundation for the Americas, (FOCAL) Background Briefing, RFC-02-1, January 2002

"Survival Strategies and Economic Illegalities in Cuba<" in Cuba in Transition, Volume 15, Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy, 2005

"Cuba 2006: 'La Revolucion Energetica' Generates a 'Quick Fix'"Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL), Ottawa, Canada, May 2006

"Economic Illegalities and the Underground Economy in Cuba" Background Briefing on Cuba, Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL), Ottawa, Canada 2006

 

Teaching Texts:

El Sector Minero y la Política Pública, Corporación de Investigaciones Económicas para América Latina, Santiago Chile, Serie Docente No 20, Noviembre de 1999, pp. 1-90.

Conference Proceedings Edited:

Latin American Prospects for the 1980s: Deformation, Reformation or Transformation? Ottawa: Carleton University, 1981 (Co-editor with D. Pollock):ity, Hum

Latin America and the Caribbean: Geopolitics Development and Culture, Ottawa: Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 1984 (Editor), pp. 1-355.

Prospects for Latin American and the Caribbean to the Year 2000, Ottawa: Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 1991 (Editor) pp. 1-453.

 

Technical Reports:

Conflict and Coincidence of Canadian and Less Developed Country Interests in International Trade in Primary Commodities, Discussion Paper, No. 109, Economic Council of Canada, 1978, pp. 1-194.

 

Journalistic Writing:

"Castro's New Man Falling Short of the Ideal," The Globe and Mail, Toronto, September 12, 1969.

"Castro's Ambitious Sugar Goal is Economic Trouble with High Political Stakes," The Globe and Mail, Toronto, December 1969.

"Cuba's New Design for Selling Revolt, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, March 18. 1970.

"How Sugarmania Affects Castro's Goals, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, September 15, 1970.

"Cuba: Straining," Newsweek, the International Magazine, 20 March 1978, p. 53.

"Carleton University: Structural Adaptation and Survival," in This Week, Carleton University, September 10, 1982, p. 3.

"LIVES LIVED: David Harold POLLOCK," The Globe and Mail, Thursday December 20, 2001, with Pat O'Manique

"LIVES LIVED, Allan QUINN," The Globe and Mail. Monday November 10, 2003, with Bev Quinn.

"Look South for the Benefits of Open Trade," Ottawa Citizen, 19 April, 2001 with David Pollock.

"Is Cuba's Economic Reform Process Paralysed?" World Economic Affairs, Winter 1999

"The Rise of a Chilean Model of Economic Development," World Economic Affairs, Autumn, 1998, pp.13-20

“Cuba: ‘La Revolución Energética’ Generates a ‘Quick Fix’” FOCALPoint, Ottawa: Canadian Foundation for the Americas, May, 2006

“The Cuban Economy after Fidel”, FOCALPoint, Ottawa: Canadian Foundation for the Americas. February 2007

“Obama, Cuba and Latin America: Renewal and Reconciliation?” FOCALPoint, Canada’s Spotlight on the Americas, 2:7, Ottawa: Canadian Foundation for the Americas, November 2008

“U.S.-Cuba Normalization: Is Impasse Inevitable?” The Globe and Mail, Toronto, March 12, 2009

“Cuban Bloggers: Is Cuba Relaxing Restrictions on Freedom of Expression?” FOCALPoint, Ottawa: Canadian Foundation for the Americas. September 2009

“Cuba in the 2010s: Creative Reform or Geriatric Paralysis”, FOCALPoint, Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL), April 2010

 

OTHER SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Conferences Organized:

Organizer, Carleton University Lecture Series and Conference on Latin America, October-November 1970; held under the auspices of The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and the Canadian Institute for International Affairs entitled Latin American Prospects for the 70s: What Kinds of Revolutions?

Organizer, Carleton University Lecture Series and Conference on Latin America, October-November 1980, held under the auspices of The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, entitled Latin American Prospects for the 1980s: What Kind of Development: Deformation, Reformation or Transformation?

Organizer, Symposium and Lecture Series, Food for All, 16-17 October 1981, held under the auspices of The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and the Canadian Institute of International Affairs in cooperation with Agriculture Canada.

Coordinator, Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Geopolitics, Ideology and Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean, Carleton University, Ottawa, 7-9 October, 1983.

Coordinator, Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Latin America and the Caribbean to the Year 2000, October 1989.

Coordinator, Consultative Symposium on Canadian Relations with Latin America and the Caribbean, Carleton University, Ottawa, April 1989. Sponsored by the Department of External Affairs, with the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies as the Executing Agency.

Principal Organizer, International Symposium: Cuba in the International System: Normalization and Reintegration, Carleton University, Ottawa, 23-25 September 1993 (Prof. J.Kirk, Dalhousie University, Co-organizer).

Principal Organizer, International Symposium: The Cuban Economy: Problems, Policies, Perspectives, September 28 - 30, 1999, Carleton University, Ottawa.

Principal Organizer, General Meeting and Conference, Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, September 28 - October 2, 1999, Carleton University, Ottawa.

Contract and Other Research:

Work on Mineral Policy Review, under contract with Department of Energy, Mines and Resources, Government of Canada, December 1981; responsibility for component on "The International Marketing of Minerals".

Unpublished Technical Reports:

Managing the International Tin Economy: A Review of Existing Simulation Studies, September 1980 (with P. Devine, Department of Finance), Department of Energy Mines and Resources, Government of Canada, pp. 1-36.

Tanzania's Agricultural Sector: An Analysis of Past Performance and of 1980-1981 Policy Initiatives, August 1981, Prepared under contract for Commonwealth Africa Division, CIDA, pp. 1-78.

Tanzania's Long Term Development Prospects, June 1983, Prepared under contract for Commonwealth Africa Division, CIDA, pp. 1-182.

Mineral Sector Development in the SADCC Region: Investment Opportunities and Policies, January 1985. Prepared for the Commonwealth Secretariat and SADCC Mining Coordination Unit, Ministry of Mines, Government of the Republic of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia, pp. 1-45.

"The Labour Force, Employment and Unemployment in Kenya," Technical Paper 86-04, Long Range Planning Unit, Ministry of Planning and National Development, Nairobi, Kenya; November, 1986, pp. 1-46.

"The Informal Sector in the Kenya CGE Model," Technical Paper 87-03, Long Range Planning Unit, Ministry of Planning and National Development, Nairobi, Kenya; May 1987, pp. 1-68.

"Services, Transportation and Construction in the Kenya CGE Model," Technical Paper 87-04, Long Range Planning Unit, Ministry of Planning and National Development, Nairobi, Kenya; May 1987, pp. 1-45.

"The Urban Small Scale Enterprise Sector: Information from the 1987 Urban Labour Force Survey," Technical Paper 88-02, Long Range Planning Unit, Ministry of Planning and National Development, Nairobi, Kenya, February, 1988 (with R. Robicheau), Nairobi, Kenya, pp. 1-30.


"Productivity Change in the Non-Agricultural Economy of Kenya, 1964-1987," Technical Paper 88-06, Long Range Planning Unit, Ministry of Planning and National Development, Nairobi, Kenya, July, 1988, pp. 1-52.

"Consequences for Canada of Prospective Cuba-United States Relations: From the >Helms-Burton Bill= to Rapprochement," Working Paper, on Cuban Policy Studies, Cuba Project, Queen=s College and Graduate School, City College of New York, March 22, 1996.


Research Grants and Awards:

St. Andrews Exchange Scholarship; awarded while at Queen's University for study at St. Andrews University, 1962-63.

Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship; awarded while at the University of Texas for Dissertational study on and in Cuba, 1968-69.

Canada Council Conference Grant: awarded for use in Conference held under the auspices of The Norman Paterson School of International Affairs and the Canadian Institute for International Affairs, 13-14 November 1970, entitled Latin American Prospects for the 1970s: What Kinds of Revolutions?

Leave Fellowship, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, January-August, 1979.

Conference Grants, awarded for a Conference held under the auspices of the School of International Affairs and the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, entitled Latin American Prospects for the 1980s, November 1980; with grants or assistance from:
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada;
Canadian International Development Agency;
Ontario Co-operative Program on Latin American and Caribbean Studies (support in kind);
Department of External Affairs;

Energy Mines and Resources Canada, "The Mineral Machinery and Equipment Industry in Mineral-Rich Countries," 1984-1988 .

Conference Grants and assistance in kind awarded for the October 1989 Conference on Latin America and the Caribbean to the Year 2000:
Canadian International Development Agency;
Graduate Studies, Carleton University (GR6));
CUSO ;
Department of External Affairs, Government of Canada;
Interamerican Development Bank ;
U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean(;
Embassy of Uruguay ;
Ontario Cooperative Program on Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Department of External Affairs, Government of Canada, Grant for Consultative Symposium on Canadian Relations with Latin America, May, 1989 ($39,950).

North-South Institute, Ottawa, Macroeconomic Policy, Structural Adjustment and Debt in Chile, Research Grant, 1990-1992

Grants and Assistance awarded for International Symposium entitled Cuba in the International System: Normalization and Reintegration, Carleton University, Ottawa, 23-25 September 1993 (Prof. J. Kirk, Co-organizer)
Graduate Studies and Research, Carleton University (GR-6)
Carleton International
Cooperative Security Competition, Ottawa ($15,000.)
MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, U.S.A. ($37,000.)

International Development Research Centre, Grant for Carleton University Economics Department's M.A. Program at the University of Havana, 1995-1996, ($552,930.)

Canadian International Development Agency, Economics Component, Carleton University - University of Havana Agreement, 1996-2002, Supporting Cuba's Management of its Transformation: Enhancing the Universities' Contribution, ($2,134, 840.)

Conference Grants and assistance in kind awarded for the October 1999 Conference and General Meeting of the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies,
Canadian International Development Agency;
Graduate Studies, Carleton University (GR6; SSHRCC;
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade,
FOCAL, Ottawa;
Inter-American Development Bank ;
Embassy of Uruguay ;

Symposium on The Cuban Economy: Problems, Policies and Perspectives, September, 1999:
Canadian International Development Agency: ($40,000.)
Institute for International Education, New York, ($16,500.)
FOCAL, Ottawa

 

RECENT PUBLIC ADDRESSES ( 1997 to 2000 0nly):

"Observations on Canadian-Cuban Relation," Centro de Estudios sobre Estados Unidos, University of Havana, Havana Cuba, January 28, 1997.

"The Cuban Ecoomy, 1997," United Nations, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Santiago Chile, May 1997.

"Obstaculos Internos a la Reinsercion de Cuba en el Sistema Internacional," Instituto de Relaciones Internacionales, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, May 1997.

"Cuba's Economic Situation in the late 1990s," Georgetown University, Washington D.C. June 1997.

"Canadian and U.S. Policy towards Cuba: The Eagle Screams, the Beaver Toils but Neither to Any Effect," Group of 78, Ottawa, February 25, 1997.

"The Helms-Burton Phase of US-Cuban Relations: Strengthening the Status Quo in Cuba," North American Committee, NAC Business Principles and Secondary Boycotts, Washington DC, January 7, 1998.

"Cuba's Economic Reform Process, 1998: Through Paralysis to Renewal?" for Conference on Cuba Today, March 13, 1998, Inter-American Dialogue, sponsored by Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, Boston, USA.

"Canada-Cuba Relations: the Human Rights and Democratic Development Dimension," and "Cuba's Economic Reform Process," presented at the Annual Conference of the Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, March 20, 1998, Vancouver, BC

"Optimizar los Beneficios Sociales Netos del Desarrollo del Sector Minero," presented ant the Ministry of Mines, Government of Peru, 10 June, 1999.

"The Tax Regime for Micro-Enterprise in Cuba: Implications for Equity, Efficiency and Viability," presented at Conference on The Cuban Economy, Problems, Policies and Perspectives, Carleton university, Ottawa, September 28-30, 1999.

"Cuba: From 'Dollarization' to 'Euro-ization'?" With Nicholas Rowe, presented at the North South Institute Conference on Dollarization, September 200o, Ottawa.

"Canada's Mineral Cluster: Structure, Evolution and Functioning," presented at United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Seminario Internacional sobre Clusters Mineros en America Latina, Santiago Chile, November 20, 2000.

 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Offices in Learned Societies:

President, Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 1989-1990.


Secretary-Treasurer, Canadian Association of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, 1983-86.

 

ACADEMIC RESPONSIBILITIES: TEACHING

1.       Undergraduate Courses Taught:

43.101 Contemporary Economic Issues, 1972-73

ECON 1000 Introduction to Economics,  Winter 2003, Winter 2004, Winter 2006, Winter 2007, Winter 2008

43.200 Microeconomic Theory, 1970-71

43.201 Microeconomic Theory, Autumn 1975

43.203 Intermediate Microeconomics II, Winter 1983

43.210 Aggregate Economic Theory and Policy, 1969-70; 1975-76

43.212 Intermediate Macroeconomics I, Autumn, 1988; Autumn, 1989

43.213 Intermediate Macroeconomics II, Winter 1985

43.360 Special Topics in International Economics: The Economic Relations between Developing and Developed Countries, Winter 1975; Winter 1977

43.361 International Trade, Autumn 1978

43.363 An Introduction to the Economics of Development, 1970-1983, 1990-2003

ECON 3603 (3508) An Introduction to the Economics of Development, Autumn, 2003, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn 2007

INAF 4102 Special Topics in Development and International Affairs, Winter 2006

43.421 Macroeconomic Theory, Autumn 1994

43.456 Economic Development, Spring 1970; 1971-72; 1974-75; 1975-76; 1976-77; 1977-78; 1980-81; 1981-82

43.457 The Economics of Development, Autumn 1984; Winter 1990

43.458 International Aspects of Economic Development, Winter 1982; Winter 1984; Winter 1989, Winter 2000, Winter 2001

 

2. Graduate Courses Taught:

43.554 Economic Development: Internal Aspects, Spring 1996 (Havana M.A.Program); Winter 1997; Winter 1998, Winter 1999

43.555 Economic Development: International Aspects, Winter, 1981; Autumn 1981; Winter 1984; Autumn 1984; Autumn 1988; Winter 1991; Winter 1992; Winter 1993; Winter 1994

46.504 Theories of Development: Theories of Development, Autumn 1997.

46.505 Economic and Political Development 1969-70; 1970-71; 1971-72; 1972-73; 1974-75; 1975-76; 1976-77

46.505 International Dimensions of Development, Autumn 1982; Autumn 1983; Autumn 1984; Autumn 1985; Winter 1991; Winter 1992.

46.507 Theories of Development and Underdevelopment, Autumn 1978; Autumn 1980; Autumn 1982; Autumn 1983; Autumn 1984; Autumn 1985; Autumn 1988; Autumn 1989; Autumn 1991; Autumn 1993; Autumn 1996; Autumn 1997, Autumn 1999

46.525 Latin America, Autumn 1971

46.537 Macroeconomics in a Development Context, Winter 1989; Winter 1990; Winter 1991; Winter 1992; Winter 1993; Winter 1994 Winter 2001

INAF 5600 Human Resource Development, Winter 2007, Winter 2008

INAF 5606 Indigenous Peoples and Development, Autumn, 2005, Autumn 2006, Autumn, 2007

46.564 Problems of Development in  Latin America, Winter 1976; Winter 1977; Winter 1978; Winter 1994; Autumn 1995; Autumn 1996, Autumn 1999, Winter 2001; Winter 2002

46.565 The International Economics and Politics of Resources, Autumn 1977; Autumn 1978; Winter 1981; Autumn 1981; Winter 1983; Winter 1985

46.581 Regional Cooperation among Developing Countries, Winter 1990; Autumn 1993.

46.591 Tutorial, Summer 1976; Summer 1977; Summer 1981; Winter 1984; Winter 1985; Autumn 1991

50.590 Directed Studies, Summer 1989; Summer 1992, Summer 2000

 

UNDERGRADUATE SUPERVISION: Honours Essays (Since 2003 only)

Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs: 13

Department of Economics: 12

GRADUATE SUPERVISION: MA Research Essays or Theses

Career Total: :       Supervisor: 42; Advisor: 33

 

 

 

 

 

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