Congress currently is debating whether to lift restrictions on travel by Americans to Cuba. In connection with that debate, The Brattle Group, an independent economic research and consulting firm, was asked by the Center for International Policy (CIP) to estimate the impact that such a policy change would have on the U.S. economy. In response […]

In this paper I examine the impact demographic trends are having on the evolution of Cuba’s population age structure. The analysis is conducted within a comparative perspective and focuses on the most significant demographic development of the late twentieth century and the first half of the twenty-first, the ageing of the world’s population. The analyses […]

Notes1 La restauración de la Constitución de 1940 como la ley principal de la República de Cuba ha sido un tema cuya vigencia ha tenido varios ciclos desde su derogación de facto por el golpe de estado del 10 de marzo de 1952. Durante los siete años de conflicto entre las diversas instancias políticas, el […]

When Dr. Ramón Grau San Martin returned to the Cuban presidency in 1944, he seemed to be fulfilling the dreams of a generation of Cuban nationalists who first broke into politics as the student revolutionaries of 1933. Grau, the archrival of military powerbroker and president General Fulgencio Batista, represented the aspirations of those who clamored […]

Notes1 Since the early 1990s, Cuba has suffered debilitating blows that resulted from the demise of the Soviet Union and the disappearance of the economic and financial system in which the island was inserted (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, or CMEA). The termination of traditional trade partnerships with the Soviet Bloc and the loss of […]