When the transition from a centrally-planned economy to a market system finally occurs in Cuba, a number of important industries whose growth has been slowed or depressed will face conditions more favorable to expansion. Once the U.S. embargo is lifted, institutional change occurs, and foreign capital flows into the reviving system, market alignments for major […]

This is a policy paper, not a research paper. It analyzes the current Cuban situation from an operational perspective, including possible outcomes and policy suggestions as to how the Helms/Burton Act can be modified to encourage change inside the Cuba. The paper is based on a systematic review of discrete events in the context of […]

Para que la acción de un evento natural sea considerada como un desastre mayor, la Oficina del Coordinador de las Naciones Unidas para el Socorro en Casos de Desastres (UNDRO), considera una situación que implique, al menos 10 pérdidas de vidas humanas y/o un millón de dólares estadounidenses (Zupka, 1988). Segun este criterio, Cuba es […]

Note[ref]The views presented in this paper are those of the author and not necessarily those of his employer.[/ref] One way in which an economist familiar with cost benefit analysis (CBA) may look at environmental impact assessment (EIA) is that EIA is a CBA requiring a large amount of information rigorously collected and analyzed by a […]

“Justice is destroyed in twofold fashion by the false prudence of the sage and by the violent act of the man who possesses power.” — St. Thomas, On the Book of Job (8,I) The thirty six years of Castro’s omnipotent rule seem to be coming to an end. After more than a quarter of a […]