Most attempts to reflect on Cuba’s future have relied on the assessments of political scientist and others who, while examining a broad spectrum of political, economic and social variables, place emphasis on the role of leadership figures in the transition (for selected representative views see Horowitz and Suchlicki 2001, 533-660). Another alternative, suggested by Strauss […]

Notes1 The Cuban transition from a totalitarian state to a more politically open form of government with a market-oriented economy will entail a vast transformation of the country’s institutions. While daunting, this process offers many opportunities. Cuba can learn from the experiences—positive and negative— of other nations that have gone through similar processes and adopt […]

In this paper I examine the impact demographic trends are having on the evolution of Cuba’s population age structure. The analysis is conducted within a comparative perspective and focuses on the most significant demographic development of the late twentieth century and the first half of the twenty-first, the ageing of the world’s population. The analyses […]

Cuba’s future economic prosperity lies with the services sector. While agriculture and mining, the country’s two traditional resource-based sources of wealth, will remain important contributors to economic well-being, one of the most promising areas of economic activity, as it is already occurring, will be tourism. Even under the current circumstances, when tourists from the United […]

It is generally concluded that Cuba’s poor performance in the agricultural sector since the early 1990s is the result of two primary, complementary reasons. Cuban agricultural production has faltered because of: • a dearth of agricultural inputs since the collapse of the socialist world, and • the adverse impact of economic policies that interfere with […]