Notes1 El propósito de este ensayo es explorar el reciente deterioro de la economía venezolana, sus causas e indicar que, a pesar de que la situación es insostenible, el gobierno no ha realizado las correcciones necesarias, posiblemente esperando hasta después de las elecciones municipales de diciembre de 2013. COMPLEJA SITUACIÓN Y TENDENCIAS A MEDIADOS DE […]

Notes1 In the late 1960s, at the same time that Cuba’s economy was struggling under the burden of the chaotic “10 Million Ton Sugar Cane Harvest” campaign, a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health (SOPH) was writing about the extraordinary results of “supposedly original” health care policies implemented by the Cuban revolutionary […]

In his classic study Development as Freedom, Amartya Sen (1999) argues that political liberties, such as the capacity to organize, advocate, and mobilize in the public sphere, are conjoined to the expansion of markets resulting from successful development policies. Once some of these essential rights are attained, Sen argues, they become part of our socio-political […]

When looking at the potential of the Internet in Cuba, it is useful to take a comparative perspective. The Internet challenges the control of governments all over the world, and not just in authoritarian countries. Western democracies talk about Internet freedom, yet leaders will sing a different tune if it looks like the use of […]

Notes1 This study models the debt dynamics currently at play in the Venezuelan economy that are increasing the short-run risks of a debt crisis in that country. The inevitable interruption of subsidized oil exports that would result from such a crisis could deal a devastating blow to the Cuban economy, as well as the rest […]