Notes1 The collapse of the Cuban economy in the early 1990s ended abruptly in 1994, gave way to a relatively strong recovery for a couple of years, and then to a period of positive, albeit modest, growth in 1997-98. At least that is the story the official numbers tell. As shown in Figure 1, real […]

Quiero iniciar estas palabras a la Décima Reunión Anual de la Asociación para el Estudio de la Economía Cubana, con mi más cálido saludo a los participantes. Desde La Habana, me acompañan Oscar Espinosa Chepe y una persona para quien reservo mi admiración. Puede decirse que el encuentro de este día toma ribete de fiestas […]

Notes1 By most accounts the process of economic reform in Cuba starts in 1993. In these six years this process has evolved in various directions, not all of them consistent with each other, and economic outcomes have also evolved in various ways sometimes due to the reforms and at other times despite the reforms. An […]

Notes1 “Los latinoamericanos metían tremendas muelas sobre la deuda externa, de las posibles revoluciones venideras, de la corrupción de los presidentes respectivos, del hambre y la miseria, sin querer ver el hambre y la miseria cubanas.” —Zoé Valdés, Traficantes de Belleza, 1999, p. 16. Recientemente se han publicado cuatro estudios sobre la situación económica de […]

Notes1 When the Soviet Union was dissolved in the fall of 1991 most observers believed that the days of central planning were counted all over the world. Most of them would have been extremely surprised to hear that more than seven years later a nation organized according to Marxist economic principles and Leninist political methods […]