The toppling of the Berlin Wall sparked tremendous changes, but few could have predicted that its fall would mark the beginning of a real estate boom. From Europe to Asia, a different kind of “domino effect” occurred in which property values in one Communist country after the other skyrocketed over the ensuing decade.1 In Estonia, […]

La remesa es un fenómeno mundial consecuencia de los flujos migratorios de las poblaciones de los países menos desarrollados hacia los más desarrollados. Sin embargo, enmarcar teóricamente este fenómeno quizás sea uno de los aspectos más difíciles de abordar cuando se hace una investigación, pues el tema de las remesas está muy vinculado a varias […]

Notes1 Over the last half century, the Castro-led Cuban government’s relationship with the émigré community, while antagonistic, has included accommodating interludes as Havana has sought to take advantage of or drive wedges within the various components of the latter. The deep polarization that accompanied the early years of the revolution, the intransigence of policies anathema […]

Notes1 “We face the imperative of making our land produce more. … the needed structural and conceptual changes will have to be introduced,” Raúl Castro famously proclaimed on 26 July 2007, a few days short of a year after provisionally taking over the reins of Cuba’s government from his incapacitated older brother. Nine months later, […]