Tomás Ricardo Rosada Villamar
Economist
Email address: trosada@gmail.com
Website: www.oocities.org/trosadav
Colegiado 7754
Education
PhD(c)in Agricultural Economics, University of Guelph.
MA in Economics, ILADES-Georgetown University.
BA in Economics, Universidad Rafael Landívar.
IB Diploma, Lester B. Pearson College (United World Colleges).
Working experience
Executive Director Office for Central America and Belize, Inter American Development Bank (IDB), Counselor.
Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales, Universidad Rafael Landivar, Director.
Alianzas/RTI/USAID Guatemala, Monitoring and Evaluation Manager.
Department of Economics, Universidad Rafael Landivar, Director.
Guatemala Poverty Assesment Team, The World Bank, Consultant.
Secretaría de Planificación y Programación de la Presidencia de la República - SEGEPLAN, Consultant.
FLACSO-Guatemala, Consultant.
Other activities
Weekly columnist on Prensa Libre Newspaper, Guatemala.
Research interests
Poverty and inequality, social policy, microfinance, economic development, with special emphasis in Latin America.
Publications
Crisis y pobreza rural en América Latina: el caso de Guatemala, RIMISP, 2009.
Dynamics of ineuquality in Guatemala, UNDP, 2008.
Reputation in a public goods game: taking the design of credit bureaus to the Lab. Forthcomming.
Eficiencia del gasto publico en America Latina, Fundacion Konrad Adenauer - Brasil.
Crecimiento y progreso social en Guatemala, Fundacion Konrad Adenauer - Brasil.
TELGUA: ¿un proceso capturado?. Revista Estudios Sociales.
IDIES, Universidad Rafael Landivar.
El TLC México-Triángulo Norte: Un acuerdo de baja intensidad. Revista DIALOGO. FLACSO sede Guatemala.
Research experience
Global economic crisis and rural poverty in Guatemala.
Collaborative research project with RIMSIP and Instituto de Estudios Peruanos (IEP). (2009).
Enhancing smallholder competitiveness in the face of globalization. The case of Guatemala. (2008-2011)
Collaborative research project with UC Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and resource economics.
Conditional cash transfers in an urban context. The case of Guatemala City (2008).
Collaborative project with the Municipality of Guatemala City, Italian Cooperation in Guatemala.
Credit bureaus and microfinance in Guatemala, 2003-2007.
Collaborative research project with UC Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and resource economics.
Poverty mapping in Guatemala (2000-2001).
Collaborative project withh SEGEPLAN, INE, WORLD BANK, UNDP, and IDB.
Teaching Experience
Operations Management. University of Guelph, Canada.
Teaching assistant.
The market and the firm. Univeristy of Guelph, Canada.
Teaching assistant.
Economía Matemática. Universidad Rafael Landivar, Guatemala.
Professor.
Economic Development in Guatemala. Guelph University and University of Saskatchewan, Guatemala.
Professor.
Principios de microeconomía. Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
Teaching Assistant.
Introducción a la Economía. Universidad Del Valle, Guatemala.
Professor.
Introducción a la Economía. Universidad Jesuita Alberto Hurtado, Chile.
Teaching assistant.