INTRODUCCIÓN El Centro Histórico La Habana Vieja, inscripto en la delimitación municipal, incluye al área original intramuros y la expansión extramuros de la Villa San Cristóbal de La Habana, fundada en 1519. En 1978, fue declarado Monumento Nacional y posteriormente, en 1982, y conjuntamente con el Sistema de Fortificaciones Coloniales, la UNESCO los incorpora al […]

It is said that one of the positive features that many transition economies of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have going for them as they try to close the gap with their western neighbors is their relatively high levels of education, and therefore of human capital. Campos and Coricelli (2002) characterize as the […]

Notes1 It gives me great pleasure to have been invited to this conference to share some thoughts with this distinguished and well informed audience on how monetary policy could contribute to a transition from the present situation in Cuba’s economy, where arbitrary policies dominate decision-making, to a governing framework that produces economic decisions that markets […]

A friend who worked in the Administration told me that when President Bush received the report of his Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba in 2004—a report that brought new limits on family remittances, gift parcels, and visits—the only question that he returned to his staff was whether elderly Cubans would be harmed. This […]