The last fifty years have been the most turbulent in the long history of the Cuban sugar industry.1 On the heels of the revolutionary movement’s rise to power came agrarian reform, nationalization of the sugar mills and the transfer of Cuba’s entire sugar industry—except for small growers—into state ownership, entailing the creation of a host […]
Historical Overview of Cuba’s Costs of Sugar Production: Implications for the Future
The world is undergoing radical changes, characterized by the growing interdependence of all countries and sharpened competition in liberalized markets. For Cuba, the closing years of the old millennium spelled the end of an era and posed the challenge of adjusting its domestic economic order to integrate the island fully in the global economy. Cuba’s […]