For more than thirty years, the Cuban state has concentrated its attention and resources on the development of the portion of the agricultural sector under its direct control, neglecting the portion outside its control, particularly private farmers and, to a lesser extent, cooperatives. Although comparative studies of agricultural productivity in the state and nonstate sectors […]

Other participants of this panel will discuss Cuba’s balance of payments. This paper does not address how the trade gap is met, only the remittances issue. However, you are referred to Table 5 in Jorge Pérez- López’s paper.1 Between 1993 and 1998, the cumulative trade gap reached US$10.1 billion. How can a country finance such […]

Notes1 The first country in Latin America to implement farreaching economic reforms was Chile, which began the process in 1975.2 Other countries followed after the debt crisis of the 1980s, and today almost every country in the region has implemented stabilization programs, liberalized trade and privatized large numbers of state-owned enterprises. Stabilization programs succeeded in […]

Bilateral investment treaties (BITs), intended to promote and protect foreign investment, are relatively new but increasingly common instruments in international economic relations.1 According to the specialized agency of the United Nations that tracks international investment, 1,332 BITs had been concluded by the end of 1996.2 While BITs were originally conceived as accords between developed and […]

Notes1 This paper was prepared to identify some of the priority areas in which environmental management must be implemented to facilitate lasting and sustainable economic growth and social development in Cuba. The goal is to outline the initial effort required to support the Cuban Government to assess, structure and implement its environmental management, when a […]