In the spring of 2014, a series of news articles appeared indicating that U.S. food and agricultural exports to Cuba continued to plummet (“continuaron en picada”) (Café Fuerte; Cuba Standard; and Economic Eye on Cuba). Their evidence for this assessment was that the value of U.S. food and agricultural exports to Cuba in 2013 was […]

Notes1 Cuba’s economic policy is firmly based on ideological grounds. Consequently it is not wholly appropriate to evaluate its current reforms and growth strategy in the usual terms for transition economies that emphasize efficiency, the role of markets and ownership rights (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 2013). Nonetheless, taking into account the ideological context […]

Notes1 Among the most important sources of information on a country’s housing stock and characteristics are population and housing censuses. Their usefulness is enhanced when comparable statistics from successive censuses are available, as it is then possible to assess trends on the nature of the housing stock. More generally — and in the case of […]

Resulta un imperativo del presente ensayo, luego de una acuciosa búsqueda de datos, dar a conocer las interioridades del trabajo privado en Cuba, para que se tenga una idea de las tribulaciones en las que se han visto envuelto aquellos que se decidieron por este tipo de actividad y hasta donde ha sido su expansión, […]

OBJETIVOS DEL PLAN “MÁS MÉDICOS” El plan “Más Médicos” tiene tres categorías de objetivos diferentes: objetivos políticos, objetivos financieros y objetivos asociados a la salud. Objetivos Políticos Primero, con los más de 11 mil médicos cubanos atomizados en la geografía brasileña desde el año pasado, el actual gobierno de la izquierda local en el poder […]