I would like to give my point of view on Cuba’s recent economic results. By that I mean the economic results for 1995 and the first part of 1996. I am going to assume for purposes of these remarks that the official information of the economic results that has been reported is reliable. So, if […]

The purpose of this article is twofold: 1) to examine the extent to which Cuban workers experienced adversity and hardship during the years ensuing the collapse of the Soviet Union; and 2) to ascertain whether economic crisis and deterioration of conditions of work and life are likely to bring about the downfall of a totalitarian […]

The Central and Eastern European region is of critical importance to the world political economy. Many think that the tone of the new world order will be set in the 21st Century by the events occurring in this region. Not surprisingly, interest in the region has grown immensely in the last decade, especially among business […]

The free market reforms that Cuba undertook in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union have propelled the country into uncharted waters as it improvises to find solutions to its economic crisis. The harsh realities of a world without the massive Soviet aid on which Cuba had become so dependent forced the government […]