The paper by Mark Gallagher reviews major issues already reported in prior ASCE conferences and elsewhere providing a backdrop to a very useful set of policy guidelines distilled from recent experiences, particularly in former Soviet bloc countries. Of equal importance to the policy considerations are tax administration issues. Administrative simplicity and corruption avoidance are essential […]
Comments by José Alberto Hernández Castillo on “The Political Economy of the Internet in Cuba” by Valdés and Rivera
We are grateful that CubaNet was invited to participate in the discussion of the paper “The Political Economy of the Internet in Cuba” by Nelson P. Valdés and Mario A. Rivera. This paper ought to be praised for the detailed chronology presented on the topic of the Internet and Cuba; however, certain themes presented by […]
The Strengths and Weaknesses of Factor Analysis in Predicting Cuban GDP
Notes1 This paper has a dual purpose. At the technical level, it updates the work of Gitanjali Joglekar and Andrew Zimbalist (1989) on the use of factor analysis to estimate per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for Cuba. At the analytical level, it questions the validity of this approach when the underlying economic structure of […]
Volume 8 Appendix A: Authors and Discussants
BENIGNO E. AGUIRRE is Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University. JOSÉ ÁLVAREZ is Professor, Food and Research Economics Department, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, where he works as the Area Economist at the Everglades Research and Education Center, Belle Glade, Florida. He has been traveling to Cuba in the past […]
Cuba y Polonia: semejanzas, diferencias
Notes1 La noticia de la visita a Cuba que Juan Pablo II llevaría a cabo, constituyó, para muchas personas, un motivo de interés y expectativa durante todo el año de 1997. En lo personal, a mí me estimuló a conocer mejor al Pastor de la Iglesia Católica, su vida y especialmente, el papel que desempeñó […]
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