I said this to President Castro in Cuba. I said, look, you’ve made great progress in educating young people. —Barack Obama He managed to bring…good quality education to all the people of Cuba. —Jeremy Corbyn A legendary revolutionary and orator, Mr. Castro made significant improvements to the education…of his island nation. —Justin Trudeau As the […]
Cuban Socioeconomic Indicators before the Revolution: An International Comparison
Notes1 Interest in Cuban socioeconomic indicators is usually focused on pre- and post-Revolutionary comparisons. That is not the purpose of this paper. My focus here will be only on the pre-Revolutionary period. The purpose of this work is quite specific. It is to see whether the available data on socioeconomic indicators are consistent with the […]
Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Priorities for Cuba with Emphasis on Havana, Including Some Benefit-Cost Considerations
Notes1 In anticipation of an eventual political transition in Cuba, two Cuban-American engineering associations, the Cuban-American Association of Civil Engineers (C-AACE) and the Association of Cuban Engineers (ACE), have continued to sponsor their joint Cuba Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Committee. At the 2008 annual conference of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy […]
Labor Market Distortions and Speed of Transition in Eastern Europe: Implications for Cuba
It is said that one of the positive features that many transition economies of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have going for them as they try to close the gap with their western neighbors is their relatively high levels of education, and therefore of human capital. Campos and Coricelli (2002) characterize as the […]
Schooling vs. Human Capital: How Prepared is Cuba’s Labor Force to Function in a Market Economy?
A transition to a market economy is always challenging, especially when it also involves the struggle out of underdevelopment. Sometime in the future Cuba will probably be involved in such a transition. Almost everyone agrees the task will be most difficult, but many observers of the Cuban economy point out that one thing the Island […]