Notes1 In the second half of the 20th century several world economies have benefited considerably by capitalizing on their links with national Diasporas. China and Israel seem to be the best-known examples of countries that received a major developmental push from their nationals located throughout the world. While in most countries the main Diaspora-related benefit […]

In 2000, the United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) commonly refer to by its Spanish acronym, CEPAL, published a second edition of its study of the Cuban economy titled La Economía Cubana: Reformas estructurales y desempeño en los noventa. The study was financed by the Swedish government and had as […]

The Cuban population has grown significantly during the twentieth century, from about two million people in 19071 to over an estimated eleven million people as of June 30, 2000.2 This more than five-fold increase has been accompanied by a gradual but monotonous aging of the population in which the proportion of children and younger adults […]

Notes1 In the last part of his recent book, Carmelo Mesa- Lago (2000) provides a systematic comparison of the policies followed by Chile, Cuba and Costa Rica (Chapter 1) and of the results thereby obtained over the relevant periods for each country (Chapter 2). This is accomplished, of course, by building on the information developed […]

Cuba’s future economic prosperity lies with the services sector. While agriculture and mining, the country’s two traditional resource-based sources of wealth, will remain important contributors to economic well-being, one of the most promising areas of economic activity, as it is already occurring, will be tourism. Even under the current circumstances, when tourists from the United […]