This paper investigates the external factors of influence on Cuba’s efforts to develop nuclear energy. This discussion will center on the bilateral, multilateral and international aspects of Cuba’s cooperation and interaction in the nuclear and energy fields. This is presented in three sections. The first section on bilateral cooperation reviews Cuba’s relations with its primary […]

More than any other Pope before him, John Paul II has traveled far and wide. Few of his visits, however, have captured the imagination as much as his visit to Cuba, a country that when he visited in January 1998 had been under the communist rule of Fidel Castro for 38 years. This international drama […]

All societies and economic systems—industrialized or developing, market economy or socialist—must deal with environmental disruption. In market economies, environmental disruption has been the subject of considerable economic analysis. Environmental disruption is associated with “failure” of the market mechanism in the face of externalities and public goods. Much less attention has been paid to environmental disruption […]

Notes1 This paper is a follow up to, and complements, my paper published last year in Cuba in Transition—Volume 7 (Madrid-Aris, 1997), in the sense that better data have been collected, and some tests have been performed to find some explanations for the Cuban decreasing total factor productivity (TFP) growth. In addition, Cuban TFP results […]