Notes[ref]This paper is a revised and updated version of testimony the author presented to the U.S. International Trade Commission in June 2015.[/ref] This paper assesses the effects of the U.S. trade restrictions on our telecommunication exports to Cuba. Since there is a great deal of uncertainty about the Cuban plans and policies and U.S. policy […]

Notse[ref]I am grateful to Luis Locay and Jorge Pérez-López for their comments on earlier drafts of this paper.[/ref] Cuba, along with many other countries, is in the midst of a transcendental demographic transformation. Concerns regarding high fertility and population growth rates (the “population explosion”) are giving way to alarm about population aging, mostly due to […]

El presente trabajo persigue dos objetivos fundamentales. Primero, el de proporcionar un ejemplo del trabajo que el exilio cubano[ref]También llamada Diáspora. Formada por cubanos que salieron de la isla a partir de la revolución de 1959, mayormente pero no únicamente hacia EEUU, y que a través de los años incluye a diferentes oleadas con distintas […]

To accurately fathom the success of the Castro-Communist regime[ref]The categorization of “Castro-Communist” depicts the Cuban dictatorial model. It is a hybrid case of nondemocratic rule within the operational mold of a regime which is both totalitarian and sultanistic. For a broad description of nondemocratic regime-types see Linz and Stepan, Problems of Democratic Transition (1996), pp. […]

The elimination or reduction of the excessive bureaucratic regulations that restricted private economic activities under the classical socialist model is one of the principal forces behind the expansion of the non-State (or private) sector under market (or “reform”) socialism (Kornai, 1992; Szelényi, 1988). During this stage of the transition process, a growing share of the […]