All societies and economic systems—industrialized or developing, market economy or socialist—must deal with environmental disruption. In market economies, environmental disruption has been the subject of considerable economic analysis. Environmental disruption is associated with “failure” of the market mechanism in the face of externalities and public goods. Much less attention has been paid to environmental disruption […]

Notes1 This paper is a follow up to, and complements, my paper published last year in Cuba in Transition—Volume 7 (Madrid-Aris, 1997), in the sense that better data have been collected, and some tests have been performed to find some explanations for the Cuban decreasing total factor productivity (TFP) growth. In addition, Cuban TFP results […]

The work presented here is divided into two major parts. The first part gives an abreviated and informal discussion of the theoretical framework underpinning the methodology that is to be applied in the second part. It is based on material put together in Roqué (1996) which in turn was based on material incidentally derived in […]

Notes1 En los primeros años de la década de los 90 se desató la crisis económica que por su complejidad y alcance ha sido considerada una de las más graves ocurridas en nuestro país, afectando profundamente a todos los sectores de la economía nacional, incluyendo al que en la actualidad integran la agricultura, la actividad […]