Notes1 The paper examines the behavior of consumer prices during the transition from plan to market in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union from 1990 to 1996. It focuses on the influence of two key explanatory variables: economic liberalization and monetary growth, both across countries of the region and […]

The engendering of the spirit of entrepreneurship in a population is one of the most essential prerequisites for successful transition. The limited reappearance of self-employment in the Cuban economy has brought the question of the future of Cuban entrepreneurship under a new light. Almost immediately after economic reforms legalizing some forms of self-employment were passed, […]

Over the last 38 years, quantitative and institutional information on the Cuban economy have typically been fragmentary and incomplete. The serious observer or investigator must reconcile his or her understanding of what is happening with reports that are vague and contradictory. That is why formal or scientific investigation of the Cuban economy is very difficult […]

Notes1 “Llegaron los días difíciles actuales en que predominan las carencias materiales, se produce una indeseada diferenciación social y aumentan las ilegalidades ….. La lista de los problemas es enorme. Las limitaciones en alimentación, vestido, calzado, medios de higiene y medicamentos; los apagones y la carencia de combustible doméstico; las graves dificultades en transporte, vivienda […]