Table 1. Cuba’s hard currency receipts from merchandise trade and tourism Table 2. Foreign visitors to Cuba, by area of origin Table 3. International visitors to Cuba Table 4. International visitors to Cuba by selected area of origin Table 5. Foreign visitors to Cuba by major country of origin Table 6. International travelers to Cuba by […]
Cuban Economic Outcomes in the United States, 1960–1990
This paper examines the characteristics of the Cuban diaspora in the United States, and its propensity to achieve business success. The results are based on the Survey of Minority-Owned Business Enterprises, 1987 Economic Census issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce in April 1991. These statistics conclusively depict the breadth and depth of entrepreneurship displayed […]
Abstracts of Main Presentations: The Current Economic Situation in Cuba
The conference started with a panel discussion on the current situation in Cuba that involved presentations by Dr. Ernesto Betancourt, former Director of Radio Marti, Dr. Jorge Dominguez, professor of Harvard University and Dr. Jorge Perez Lopez, of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The following is a summary of the main points made in […]
Some Lessons of Soviet Economic Reform
International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C. 20431. The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Fund. This paper was written before the recently-foiled coup The progress, or lack of it, in Soviet economic reform is by now broadly familiar to every student of socialist and formerly socialist economies. […]
Comments by Lorenzo Perez on Towards a Market Economy in Cuba? Social and Political Consideration
Dr. Perez-Stable’s paper argues that Cuban socialism is increasingly unviable because of the reduction of the Soviet Union subsidies, the continuation of the United States blockade, and the increasing demands for political changes by the middle class. She notes that this has led many observers to believe that the restoration of a market economy and […]
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