This paper presents an assessment of economic implications of movement towards normal relations between Cuba and the United States. It gauges the likely impact of the new measures announced by Obama on December 2014. It then considers economic consequences in a longer time horizon given possible changes in U.S. laws and resolution of major legal […]

The actions announced by the governments of Cuba and the United States on December 17, 2014 will have a limited immediate impact on the Cuban economy.[ref]For an early estimate of the effects of these measures, see Luis R. Luis, Economic Impact of the New Cuba Measures, Ascecuba.org//blog.[/ref] More important consequences will need to await the […]

Three years ago, Cuba’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez, at a meeting in New York, explained, and insisted, that what Cuba needed and was promoting in terms of foreign investments, was investors representing big capital from well-established firms. The approach was questioned and criticized by foreign experts, suggesting that the whole idea was nothing […]

La cultura acopia toda la producción sociocultural humana. Es un universo que expresa los rasgos distintivos, espirituales y materiales de una sociedad o grupo social: tradiciones, imaginarios, modos de vida, las artes, las letras, los valores, los sistemas productivos, la identidad y el patrimonio (natural, mueble, inmueble, tangible e intangible). Gracias a toda la experiencia […]

In the study of government transitions, particularly those that took place in Eastern and Central Europe following the collapse of the Soviet Union, a pivotal argument about the sequencing of reforms took the form of a “chicken or the egg” causality dilemma: What should come first, political or economic changes? Since, in most countries economic […]