Author’s note A perennial problem in revolutionary Cuba has been the shortage of housing. While it predates 1959, many economic and social policies implemented since, when coupled with demographic and political developments, have accentuated the shortage. The 1960s and 1970s baby boom would several decades later provoke a housing demand surge mitigated by the housing […]

Notes1 Many countries are coping with the realization that population ageing demands long-term policies to accommodate rising elderly costs. While attention is rightly focused on rising pension and health care costs, interest is also being directed to potential means whereby some of these expenditures could be curtailed. In countries where population ageing is just getting […]

Notse[ref]I am grateful to Luis Locay and Jorge Pérez-López for their comments on earlier drafts of this paper.[/ref] Cuba, along with many other countries, is in the midst of a transcendental demographic transformation. Concerns regarding high fertility and population growth rates (the “population explosion”) are giving way to alarm about population aging, mostly due to […]

Notes1 Among the most important sources of information on a country’s housing stock and characteristics are population and housing censuses. Their usefulness is enhanced when comparable statistics from successive censuses are available, as it is then possible to assess trends on the nature of the housing stock. More generally — and in the case of […]