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Maximo Torero (born 27 May 1967) is a Peruvian economist. Since January 2019, he has been the Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) Assistant Director General of the Economic and Social Development Department. Between 2016 and 2018, he was Executive Director for Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay at the World Bank Group in Washington, D.C. From 2004 to 2016, Torero was Division Director of the Markets, Trade, and Institutions Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); he also led the Global Research Program on Institutions and Infrastructure for Market Development and was Director for Latin America. Previously, he was senior researcher and a member of the executive committee at Group of Analysis for Development (GRADE).

Education and career

Torero graduated from University of the Pacific (Peru), and earned a B.S., an MA in 1993 and a Ph.D. in economics in 1998, both from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Department of Economics. He is a professor on leave at the University of the Pacific (Peru) and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at University of Bonn, Germany.

Torero was the chief of party for a USD $449.6 million investment (2007-2012) by the Millennium Challenge Corporation MCC in rural infrastructure with a significant component of water and sanitation in rural areas in El Salvador; the five-year investment had three projects: Connectivity, Human Development, and Productive Development. The Connectivity Project included two major activities: the Northern Transnational Highway (NTH) and the Network of Connecting Roads (NCR).^[1] The reports, data and methodology was produced by Torero and his team at IFPRI as El Salvador - Northern Transnational Highway.^[2]

On property rights, Torero has worked on urban and rural titling and crop choices. His work cited in “The Mystery of Capital

Deepens.” Economist, August 24, 2006)^[3] show that households with title were more likely to secure a loan from the government-backed Materials Bank.

Awards and honours

Torero received in 1992 the Ford Foundation Fellowship, the Inter-American Development Bank Fellowship, and Fulbright Program Fellowship; he also received during 1997-1998 Ford Foundation ISOP Interdisciplinary Program for Students of Development Areas,^[4] University of California Dissertation Year Fellowship; he also received in 2000 the Georg Foster Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.^[5]

He has won the World Award for Outstanding Research on Development given by the Global Development Network (GDN) twice. In 2000, Maximo Torero and Javier Escobal won the award for their joint work on the geographical dimension of development, with the work titled “How to Face An Adverse Geography?: The Role of Private and Public Assets”, Javier

Recent publications

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=Measuring Results of the El Salvador Connectivity Project {{!}} Millennium Challenge Corporation|url=https://www.mcc.gov/resources/doc/summary-measuring-results-el-salvador-connectivity-project|website=Millennium Challenge Corporation}}
2. ^{{cite web|title=El Salvador - Northern Transnational Highway - Data.gov|url=https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/el-salvador-northern-transnational-highway|website=catalog.data.gov}}
3. ^{{cite journal|title=The mystery of capital deepens|url=http://www.economist.com/node/7830209|journal=The Economist|date=2006-08-24}}
4. ^{{cite web|title=Youth Opportunity and Learning|url=https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/challenging-inequality/youth-opportunity-and-learning/|website=Ford Foundation}}
5. ^{{cite web|title=Alexander von Humboldt Foundation|url=https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/georg-forster-fellowship.html}}
6. ^{{cite journal|title=Awards and Medals Competition Report: Global Development Network July 2003|citeseerx=10.1.1.201.3095}}
7. ^{{cite web|title=New awards given for development research, project. - Free Online Library|url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/New+awards+given+for+development+research%2C+project.-a068641273|website=www.thefreelibrary.com}}
8. ^{{cite journal|last1=Barron|first1=Manuel|last2=Torero|first2=Maximo|title=Household electrification and indoor air pollution|journal=Journal of Environmental Economics and Management|volume=86|pages=81–92|doi=10.1016/j.jeem.2017.07.007|year=2017}}
9. ^{{cite journal|last1=Mitra|first1=Sandip|last2=Mookherjee|first2=Dilip|last3=Torero|first3=Maximo|last4=Visaria|first4=Sujata|title=Asymmetric Information and Middleman Margins: An Experiment with Indian Potato Farmers|journal=The Review of Economics and Statistics|volume=100|pages=1–13|doi=10.1162/rest_a_00699|date=11 August 2017}}
10. ^{{cite journal|last1=Martins-Filho|first1=Carlos|last2=Yao|first2=Feng|last3=Torero|first3=Maximo|title=NONPARAMETRIC ESTIMATION OF CONDITIONAL VALUE-AT-RISK AND EXPECTED SHORTFALL BASED ON EXTREME VALUE THEORY|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/econometric-theory/article/div-classtitlenonparametric-estimation-of-conditional-value-at-risk-and-expected-shortfall-based-on-extreme-value-theorydiv/EE88ACF81C37FF68BAE0E6568F54600D|journal=Econometric Theory|volume=34|pages=23–67|doi=10.1017/S0266466616000517|date=2018}}
11. ^{{cite journal|last1=Chong|first1=Alberto|last2=Cohen|first2=Isabelle|last3=Field|first3=Erica|last4=Nakasone|first4=Eduardo|last5=Torero|first5=Maximo|title=Iron Deficiency and Schooling Attainment in Peru|journal=American Economic Journal: Applied Economics|volume=8|issue=4|pages=222–255|doi=10.1257/app.20140494|date=2016}}
12. ^{{cite journal|last1=Research Institute (IFPRI)|first1=International Food Policy|title=Innovation for inclusive value-chain development: Successes and challenges|doi=10.2499/9780896292130|year=2016}}
13. ^{{cite book|title=Food Price Volatility and Its Implications for Food Security and Policy {{!}} SpringerLink|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-28201-5|year=2016|isbn=978-3-319-28199-5|last1=Kalkuhl|first1=Matthias|last2=Braun|first2=Joachim von|last3=Torero|first3=Maximo|url=https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/72164/1/MPRA_paper_72164.pdf}}