Roberto Orro’s paper “Petrolism in Cuba” addresses a topic that has been off the radar, but has great relevance to Cuba’s economy and is critical to sustaining its current regime. It should be widely circulated, especially in the oil and financial sectors.1 A more in-depth look at two issues discussed only tangentially in the piece […]
2010 Preface
The 20th Volume of Cuba in Transition publishes the Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE), held on July 29-31, 2010 at the Hilton Downtown Hotel in Miami, Florida. The conference theme was “Cuba at a Crossroads,” reflecting the tension arising from a Cuban leadership that […]
The Art of Doing Nothing: Agricultural Policy Making in Cuba
The 26 of July 2007 speech by Raúl Castro, the then newly incoming Cuban President, was a breakthrough in the history of public pronouncements by Cuban revolutionary leaders. Probably for the first time, the country’s president acknowledged that the economic system was tied up by a large number of bureaucratic impediments that had caused serious […]
Bacardi and the Future of Cuba
I should make clear at the outset that I am here in my private capacity as a writer about Cuba and not in any way as a correspondent for National Public Radio. Anything I say here today is my private opinion. Having gotten that out of the way, I want say how delighted I am […]
ASCE’s Contributions to the Literature on Remittances: 1991–2008
Notes1 The collapse of Eastern European and Soviet socialism in the early 1990s caused the most severe economic crisis in Cuba’s revolutionary history. The economic crisis of the 1990s forced the Cuban government to implement a series of policy measures to transform some aspects of the Cuban economy, while retaining (most of) the socialist character […]
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