Roberto Orro’s paper “Petrolism in Cuba” addresses a topic that has been off the radar, but has great relevance to Cuba’s economy and is critical to sustaining its current regime. It should be widely circulated, especially in the oil and financial sectors.1 A more in-depth look at two issues discussed only tangentially in the piece […]
The Art of Doing Nothing: Agricultural Policy Making in Cuba
The 26 of July 2007 speech by Raúl Castro, the then newly incoming Cuban President, was a breakthrough in the history of public pronouncements by Cuban revolutionary leaders. Probably for the first time, the country’s president acknowledged that the economic system was tied up by a large number of bureaucratic impediments that had caused serious […]
Bacardi and the Future of Cuba
I should make clear at the outset that I am here in my private capacity as a writer about Cuba and not in any way as a correspondent for National Public Radio. Anything I say here today is my private opinion. Having gotten that out of the way, I want say how delighted I am […]
ASCE’s Contributions to the Literature on Remittances: 1991–2008
Notes1 The collapse of Eastern European and Soviet socialism in the early 1990s caused the most severe economic crisis in Cuba’s revolutionary history. The economic crisis of the 1990s forced the Cuban government to implement a series of policy measures to transform some aspects of the Cuban economy, while retaining (most of) the socialist character […]
Comments on “Cuban GDP Statistics under the Special Period: Discontinuities, Obfuscation, and Puzzles” by Pérez-López and Mesa-Lago
The paper by Pérez-López and Mesa-Lago provides a very eloquent account of the recent evolution of Cuban GDP statistics. It places a particular emphasis on Cuban GDP statistics since 2001 and explains the methodology used to estimate GDP as a result of a series of changes introduced in that year. The authors make several important […]
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