Introductory Note This paper attempts to offer a basis for combining consideration of two sets of topics that in contemporary social science are treated separately: the political and institutional context in societies and the formulation of national economic policy. As the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE) progresses in its excellent work, […]

I. Introducción A.  Propósito El fin del régimen socialista de Cuba es inevitable, inminente y necesario, debido a la profunda e irreversible crisis sistémica económica y financiera que padece. Pronto el país será libre con un sistema político democrático y pluralista y con una economía de mercado. Ello implica una magna, compleja y ardua transformación […]

THE CUBAN SUGAR INDUSTRY Economic Importance There is an extensive literature on the Cuban sugar industry in the island and abroad. The reason is obvious: sugarcane has been, and continues to be, the dominant crop in Cuba’s economy, and sugar the main source of foreign exchange. Data published by the Cuban government portray the sugar […]

Introduction In Cuba, the non-sugar agricultural sector produces significant amounts of food staples essential to the people’s diet and contributes handsomely to the international trade accounts of the nation. This is the only sector in the country which operates with a significant number of private entrepreneurs (farmers and small parcel owners o parceleros). In 1989, over […]