For the past fifteen years, as part of a broad effort to address directly the problem of widespread poverty, the international development community has focused on the impact that lack of access to financial services, faced by close to a billion poor people throughout the World, has had on their ability to escape poverty. This […]

Notes1 This paper assesses fiscal management and central banking in Cuba and makes recommendations for improvement. The first section discusses what could be considered best practices in legal and regulatory frameworks for the implementation of modern fiscal management practices; the role that a central fiscal authority should play; and the types of policies and administrative […]

Notes1 The majority of existing research on Cuban microenterprise has treated the phenomenon from an economic or political perspective. However, the present paper analyzes this phenomenon from an anthropological point of view, focusing in particular on the transformations that Cuba’s emerging and diverse group of micro-entrepreneurs are experiencing in their work lives. Specifically, significant changes […]

In August 1990, facing an economic crisis prompted by the loss of trade and economic relations with the Socialist community, the Cuban leadership declared that the island had entered a “special period in time of peace,” a period of severe economic austerity. Stripped down to its essentials, the special period was about survival of the […]

Notes1 El sistema jurídico cubano reconoce la existencia de derechos reales inmobiliarios, regula su contenido y establece ciertos medios de tutela jurisdiccional para su protección. En este trabajo intento ofrecer un enfoque descriptivo y crítico acerca de aspectos básicos del sistema de derechos reales en el ordenamiento cubano, de los factores que condicionan la efectividad […]