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Shane Hunt

KEY QUALIFICATIONS

Shane Hunt is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Boston University. He has worked onPeruvian economic problems ever since his first visit to the country in 1963, and haspublished on Peru in areas such as public finance, on industrial, trade, and labor policyand on economic history and statistics. He was Visiting Professor at the Banco Central deReserva in 1969 and the Universidad del Pacifico in 1989. From 1993 to 1995 he wasChief of Party of the PAPI Project (USAID/ BIDE). In recent years he has served as aconsultant for the International Development Research Centre (Canada), which issupporting a consortium of economic and social research centers in Peru and hascontinued to work in the area of education and health economics.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Employment1998- Affiliate, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University1995- Professor Emeritus of Economics, Boston University1995- Senior Fellow, BIDE1995- Research Associate, Instituto de Estudios Peruanos1993-95 Chief of Party, DEG (a consortium of DAI and BIDE) USAID Planning andImplementation (PAPI) Project, Lima, Peru1989 Professor of Economics, Universidad del Pacifico, Lima, Peru1985-91 Director, Principles Program, Department of Economics, Boston University1987-88 Acting Director, CLADS, Boston University1974-95 Professor of Economics, Boston University1974-89 Research Associate, Center for Latin American Development Studies (CLADS),BostonUniversity1974-81 Director of Graduate Instruction, Department of Economics, Boston University1973-75 Director, Parvin Fellows Program, Princeton University1973-74 Acting Director, Research Program in Economic Development [RPED], PrincetonUniversity1971-74 Director, Program in Latin American Studies, Princeton University1969-72 Associate Director, Research Program in Economic Development (RPED),PrincetonUniversity1969 Ford Foundation Professor, University Extension Program, Banco Central de ReservadelPeru1966-74 Associate Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Princeton University1966-68 Associate Director of Graduate Program, Woodrow Wilson School, PrincetonUniversity.1964-66 Assistant Director, Economic Growth Center, Yale University.1963-66 Assistant Professor of Economics, Yale University1962-63 Lecturer in Economics, Yale University1961-62 Research Fellow, Brookings Institution

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EDUCATION

B.S. (Geology) University of Miami (Fla), 1954M.A. (Economics) Yale University, 1958Ph.D. (Economics) Yale University, 1963

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books

El problema del empleo en el Per. Lima: CONFIEP and Proyecto PAPI, USAID, 1997.

Latin American Economies: Growth and the Export Sector, 1880-1930. New York: Holmesand Meier, 1985. (co-edited with Roberto Cortes Conde)

La promocin de las exportaciones no tradicionales en el Per. Lima: Adex, 1983. (withDaniel M.Schydlowsky and Jaime Mezzera)

Articles

Crecimiento econmico a largo plazo: Per y Amrica Latina en el contexto mundial,Boletn deOpinin, Consorcio de Investigacin Econmica (Lima), noviembre 1996, pp. 14-19.

"Peru: The Current Economic Situation in Long Term Perspective," in Efran Gonzales deOlarte, ed.

The Peruvian Economy and Structural Adjustment: Past, Present, and Future (CoralGables: North-

South Center Press, 1996). Spanish version: Peru: La actual situacin econmica en laperspectiva de largo plazo, in Efran Gonzales de Olarte, ed., Ajuste estructural en elPer (Lima: Instituto deEstudios Peruanos, 1997), pp. 59-120

"Lima Emerges from Hyperinflation and Violence," Braudel Papers (Sao Paulo), No. 7,1994

"Getting Started as an Industrial Exporter: The Case of Peru," in Hugh Schwartz, ed.,Supply andMarketing Constraints on Latin American Manufacturing Exports (Washington: JohnsHopkins

University Press for Inter-American Development Bank, 1991), pp. 121-202.

"Ahorro e inversin en la economa peruana." in Alejandro Toledo, ed., Per y AmericaLatina encrisis: Cmo financiar el crecimiento (Lima: ESAN, 1990), pp. 371-418.

"Requerimientos de mercado para tener xito en las exportaciones," ["MarketingRequirements for

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Successful Exporting: Some Peruvian Examples,"] La revista de postgrado (Lima), July1989

"Como calcular los margenes de dumping para productos agrcolas: Algunos problemas demetodologa," Asocolflores (Bogot), January 1989, pp. 33-42; April 1989, pp. 44-49.

"Growth and Guano in Nineteenth Century Peru," in R. Cortes Conde and S. Hunt, eds.,LatinAmerican Economies: Growth and the Export Sector, 1880-1930 (New York: Holmes andMeier,1985), Spanish version: "Guano y crecimiento en el Per del siglo XIX," HISLA: Revistalatinoamericana de historia econmica y social (Lima), No 4, 1984.

"Economic Analysis and Outlook," in R. Werrett, ed., Country Risk Analysis: Peru (NewYork: Fund for Multinational Management Education, April 1983).

"Industrial Policy in Venezuela," in World Bank, Current Economic Position and Prospectsof

Venezuela, 1977

"Evolucin de los salarios reales en el Per, 1900-1940," ["Real Wages and EconomicGrowth in Peru, 1900-1940,"] Economa (Lima), June 1980

"Peru," in Roberto Cortes Conde and Stanley Stein, eds., Latin America: A Guide toEconomic History, 1830-1930 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977), pp. 547-647. (with Pablo Macera)

"Direct Foreign Investment: New Rules for an Old Game," in Abraham Lowenthal, ed.,The Peruvian Experiment (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975), pp. 302-349.

"What is Important in Latin American Economic History," Journal of Inter-AmericanStudies,November 1973

"La economa de las haciendas y plantaciones en Amrica Latina," ["The Economics ofHaciendas and Plantations in Latin America,"] Historia y cultura (Lima), Vol 9, 1975

Considerations on Government Policy towards Transnational Enterprises in LatinAmerica: APreliminary Survey, Organization of American States, Washington, October 1974.

"Evaluating Direct Foreign Investment in Latin America," in Luigi Einaudi, ed., Beyond

Cuba: Latin America Takes Charge of its Future (New York: Crane Russak, 1974), pp.145-162. Spanish version: "Evolucin de la inversion extranjera directa en AmricaLatina," Comercio Exterior (Mexico), Dec 1972, and Fedesarrollo (Bogot), July 1973.

"Principal Currents in the Economic Historiography of Latin America," Journal ofEconomic History, March 1971, pp. 222-253. (with Stanley J. Stein). Spanish version: "Lahistoria econmica en la Amrica Latina," Historia Mexicana, Oct-Dec 1971.

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"Distribution, Growth, and Government Economic Behavior in Peru," in Gustav Ranis, ed.,Government and Economic Development (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971), pp.375-416.Reprinted in David Chaplin, ed., Peruvian Nationalism (New Brunswick: TransactionBooks, 1976).

"Comment" to "The Role of Government in Resource Transfer ... (of) the Chilean NitrateSector," in G. Ranis, ed., op. cit.

"Income Determinants for College Graduates and the Return to Educational Investment,"YaleEconomic Essays, Vol. III, No. 2, 1963, pp. 305-357.