Notes1 “We face the imperative of making our land produce more. … the needed structural and conceptual changes will have to be introduced,” Raúl Castro famously proclaimed on 26 July 2007, a few days short of a year after provisionally taking over the reins of Cuba’s government from his incapacitated older brother. Nine months later, […]

Ante todo un saludo para los colegas y amigos participantes en este importante evento. Esta Conferencia marca un período de 20 años de fructíferos intercambios y ardua labor de nuestra Asociación, en los cuales se han acumulado valiosos estudios sobre la economía y otros aspectos determinantes de la sociedad cubana. El caudal de conocimientos atesorados […]

In this paper I will summarize how some Cuban economists within the island view recent economic developments and some of the policy measures that have been advanced to solve existing problems. I will not try to cover all the economists that have analyzed the Cuban economy in recent times but rather I will concentrate on […]

Cuban foreign policy can be divided into two stages since the victory of the Cuban Revolutionary in 1959. The first stage is from 1959 to the late 1980s and the early 1990s. In this period, Cuba adhered to the so-called proletarian internationalism, namely to keep the brotherly friendship with the Soviet Union and other communist […]

The combination of the international financial crisis and the deep erosion of much of Cuba’s export capacity in recent years by policy errors and natural disasters, resulted in a very serious liquidity shortage, forcing the government to further curtail essential imports. It also led to extraordinary measures to enhance the liquidity of the Central Bank […]