I do appreciate ASCE’s initiative in organizing this panel on my book, as well as all the comments by the four members of the panel, both the praise and the criticism. My response will follow the same order of the commentaries: Chile, Cuba, Costa Rica and Comparisons. CHILE León argues that some would have preferred […]

Notes1 I congratulate Jonathan Coleman and the other authors of this study. This work is must reading for anyone interested in the Cuban economy. It convincingly estimates the economic impact of the economic embargo on the U.S. and Cuban trade. It also provides a useful history of the embargo, considerable information on the development of […]

Notes1 Cuba’s foreign investment climate offers unique “enticements” to certain investors. In addition to offering a highly educated workforce and some comparative advantages in a few select industries, some singular characteristics of the investment climate— among others, the absence of labor unions and commonly accepted labor rights, and even the political stability, or perception thereof, […]

I was very pleased to be invited to participate in this session on the Internet and e-commerce in Cuba. The phenomenal growth of the Internet during the last decade has quickly come to dominate nearly all facets of communication and development in the modern world, and its importance as an instrument of economic and political […]

This is an important paper. Drawing on data obtained through focus group research undertaken inside Cuba, the authors attempt to shed light on the present status or “state of health,” so to speak, of both the Castro regime and its civic opposition. They consider what can be done, from within and without, peacefully to bring […]