In addressing the question of what is the optimal size of the defense sector in a post-Castro Cuba, we must first establish some criteria by which we can judge different alternatives. In this paper, the criteria that I use is one where the level of the military sector is determined by the preferences of the […]

Estamos acostumbrados a que se resalten algunas actividades económicas y sociales del país como “logros” comparadas con el período anterior a 1959. Sin embargo, ya algunos de ellos comienzan a pesar, en el contexto de la falta de recursos para derrochar. En particular la seguridad social. Mucho se ha reflexionado acerca de los beneficios que […]

Note[ref]An abbreviated version of this paper was prepared as a Briefing Paper for Dr. Carl-Johan Groth, Special Rapporteur of the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva. Some sections were incorporated into Agenda item 112 (A/50/663) at the Fiftieth Session of the General Assembly, Fall 1995.[/ref][ref] would like to thank Carlos Seiglie and Phil Brenner for […]

Note[ref]This is a revised version of the longer paper presented at the 1996 ASCE Annual Meetings. Some portions of this study appeared in an earlier paper, “Planning for a Free Market Labor Force in Post-Transition Cuba,” presented at the Allied Social Science Association meetings in San Francisco, California, January 4-7, 1996.[/ref] It is axiomatic that […]