En La Habana, el 18 de abril de 2011, durante el VI Congreso del Partido Comunista de Cuba, se aprobaron los Lineamientos de la Política Económico-Social del Estado que van revolucionando la realidad cubana. Uno de sus acápites fundamentales, es el que otorga mayor autonomía a la gestión de los municipios, en aras de incrementar […]

El 22 de abril de 2011 concluyó el VI Congreso del Partido Comunista de Cuba (PCC), considerado por la propaganda oficial como el más importante evento político del país. Esta vez el cónclave estuvo marcado por una peculiaridad inédita: a iniciativa de su líder Raúl Castro, los debates se ocuparon exclusivamente de la economía. El […]

In the spring of 2014, a series of news articles appeared indicating that U.S. food and agricultural exports to Cuba continued to plummet (“continuaron en picada”) (Café Fuerte; Cuba Standard; and Economic Eye on Cuba). Their evidence for this assessment was that the value of U.S. food and agricultural exports to Cuba in 2013 was […]

Notes1 Cuba’s economic policy is firmly based on ideological grounds. Consequently it is not wholly appropriate to evaluate its current reforms and growth strategy in the usual terms for transition economies that emphasize efficiency, the role of markets and ownership rights (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 2013). Nonetheless, taking into account the ideological context […]

Notes1 Among the most important sources of information on a country’s housing stock and characteristics are population and housing censuses. Their usefulness is enhanced when comparable statistics from successive censuses are available, as it is then possible to assess trends on the nature of the housing stock. More generally — and in the case of […]