The purpose of this paper is to present the point of view of the National Association of Sugar Mill Owners of Cuba (Asociación Nacional de Hacendados de Cuba, ANDHAC), for the reconstruction of the sugar industry in a free and democratic Cuba. Members of the Association have written extensively about this matter in conferences and […]

In May 1997, the Cuban government officially announced the creation of the Central Bank of Cuba, as part of a package of financial sector reforms. As pointed out in a recent study by ECLA, the Central Bank of Cuba inherited from the former National Bank of Cuba the exclusive responsibility for issuing money as well […]

En un futuro próximo la comunidad internacional tendrá que enfrentarse a un proceso de tránsito de la sociedad cubana hacia la democracia y una economía de mercado. En dicho proceso intervendrán, además de los diferentes grupos que componen la población cubana actual, los países que han estado involucrados en los acontecimientos contemporáneos de la Isla. […]

The institutional underpinning of successful market economies is a topic that is receiving increasing attention in the economics profession. When asked why living standards improve in some countries and not in others, until about ten years ago most economists would, I think, have focused mainly on the availability of educated people, the state of health, […]