La apertura de Cuba a un régimen de Inversión Extranjera Directa (IED) así como indirecta (IEI) y otras formas de Asociación Económica (AE), se debe de ubicar en un contexto histórico contrario al desarrollo de la riqueza nacional, las potencialidades humanas y las ventajas comparativas que la mayor de la Antillas posee. Cuba, no se […]

Notes1 As in the rest of Latin America, since the 1990s migrant remittances have become an important source of foreign exchange for the Cuban economy. Their significance was accentuated as the Havana government, facing the Special Period, legalized the possession of dollars. The response of the émigré community was swift, with remittance flows, according to […]

Notes1 De Dulcinea, en ansias de la muerte, !di que siempre será la más fermosa! Del soneto “La más fermosa” Enrique Hernández Miyares This paper follows-up on earlier work (Romeu, 2007); we refer the reader to this material for background on Six Sigma and for an in-depth discussion of the need for a peaceful transition […]

Notes1 Since the second half of the 1990s the Central Bank of Cuba (BCC) has operated a dual monetary and exchange rate system, in which a largely convertible currency (the convertible Cuban peso, CUC) coexists with the “official” non-convertible currency (the Cuban peso, CUP). The existence of dual markets for currency and associated dual exchange […]