Bilateral investment treaties (BITs), intended to promote and protect foreign investment, are relatively new but increasingly common instruments in international economic relations.1 According to the specialized agency of the United Nations that tracks international investment, 1,332 BITs had been concluded by the end of 1996.2 While BITs were originally conceived as accords between developed and […]

Notes1 This paper was prepared to identify some of the priority areas in which environmental management must be implemented to facilitate lasting and sustainable economic growth and social development in Cuba. The goal is to outline the initial effort required to support the Cuban Government to assess, structure and implement its environmental management, when a […]

Notes1 The collapse of the Cuban economy in the early 1990s ended abruptly in 1994, gave way to a relatively strong recovery for a couple of years, and then to a period of positive, albeit modest, growth in 1997-98. At least that is the story the official numbers tell. As shown in Figure 1, real […]

Quiero iniciar estas palabras a la Décima Reunión Anual de la Asociación para el Estudio de la Economía Cubana, con mi más cálido saludo a los participantes. Desde La Habana, me acompañan Oscar Espinosa Chepe y una persona para quien reservo mi admiración. Puede decirse que el encuentro de este día toma ribete de fiestas […]