Notes1 Las reformas agrarias de 1959 y 1963 hechas por la Revolución cubana, de un lado llevaron al predominio estatal en la explotación de la tierra; y de otro, introdujeron patrones para la producción en gran escala. Bajo el axioma “más propiedad estatal, más socialismo,” a partir de 1963 más del 70% del sector agropecuario […]

For more than thirty years, the Cuban state has concentrated its attention and resources on the development of the portion of the agricultural sector under its direct control, neglecting the portion outside its control, particularly private farmers and, to a lesser extent, cooperatives. Although comparative studies of agricultural productivity in the state and nonstate sectors […]

Other participants of this panel will discuss Cuba’s balance of payments. This paper does not address how the trade gap is met, only the remittances issue. However, you are referred to Table 5 in Jorge Pérez- López’s paper.1 Between 1993 and 1998, the cumulative trade gap reached US$10.1 billion. How can a country finance such […]

Notes1 The first country in Latin America to implement farreaching economic reforms was Chile, which began the process in 1975.2 Other countries followed after the debt crisis of the 1980s, and today almost every country in the region has implemented stabilization programs, liberalized trade and privatized large numbers of state-owned enterprises. Stabilization programs succeeded in […]