Notes1 La economía cubana creció en 2.5% en 1997, según informes oficiales. Sin embargo, en casi todos los sectores de la economía nacional, no se cumplieron con las metas de producción, productividad e inversión. En Cuba, como en muchos países de economía abierta, el crecimiento económico esta asociado fundamentalmente con el incremento de las exportaciones, […]

The timid, oscillating and tightly-regulated market oriented reform has been halted since March 1996, when Raúl Castro strongly criticized the negative effects of the reform, followed by the purge of some academic reformists. That halt was ratified by the Economic Resolution approved by the Fifth Communist Party Congress held in October 1997. Rather than turning […]

Pocas veces el ejercicio del deber profesional se presenta asociado a un país al cual, como la República Dominicana, me unen años de trabajos fecundos compartidos con distinguidos dominicanos como Don Hipólito Mejía. En esos años, tuve la suerte de acompañar el renacimiento de la República Dominicana, tras una de las tiranías más obscuras de […]

Notes1 The Asian crisis and the problems in many transition economies, especially Russia, have brought to the surface a number of issues that implicitly or explicitly involve addressing one of these two questions: Is economic development feasible for some countries? Or its variant: Under what circumstances is economic development feasible for some countries? Over the […]

Notes1 The paper examines the behavior of consumer prices during the transition from plan to market in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union from 1990 to 1996. It focuses on the influence of two key explanatory variables: economic liberalization and monetary growth, both across countries of the region and […]