A. Brief description of the sugar Overview, organization and management The sugar industry consist of two distinct sectors, agricultural and industrial, which compliment each other in the production of sugar and its derivatives. From the time when the sugar mills were confiscated, and until 1980, all sugar operations were controlled by two ministries, Ministry of […]
Cuba’s Transition to Market-Based Energy Prices
Prepared for delivery at the First Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, August 15-17, 1991. The paper expresses strictly the personal views of the author The Cuban-Soviet trade protocol for 1991, concluded in December 1990, introduced a number of important changes to the trading […]
Comments by Lorenzo Perez on The New Institutional Economics and the Study of the Cuban Economy
Dr. Betancourt’s paper reviews the literature of institutional economics and discusses its relevance for analyzing the type of structural changes that are likely to occur in Cuba in the future in the post-Castro period. His discussion of the work on transaction costs, property rights, and public choice is an invitation to do research in these […]
Problemas económicos de Cuba en el período de transición
INTRODUCCION Agradezco mucho a Roger Betancourt y a todos los miembros de esta Asociación, a la mayor parte de los cuales me unen viejos lazos de afecto, haberme pedido inaugurar la cátedra Carlos Díaz Alejandro, lo que para mi constituye un gran honor y una enorme satisfacción dada la gran amistad que tuve con Carlos, […]
Comments on the Espino and Perez-Lopez papers for the proceedings
The papers by Espino and Perez-Lopez are informative useful works which provide a basis for start exploring the policy prospects for tourism and energy in a post-Castro Cuba. While I don’t have fundamental disagreements on the thrust of both works, I would have liked the authors to go further and address policy implications for a […]