Actions and neglectful policies of Cuba’s socialist government over nearly four decades will leave a legacy of environmental disruption that future governments will have to reckon with. We have argued elsewhere (Díaz-Briquets and Pérez-López, forthcoming) that the environmental disruptions that have occurred in socialist Cuba were not merely the result of the process of transformation […]

The intent is—in post-Castro Cuba—to establish bio-prospecting laboratories in the rain-forests of eastern Cuba and fund them through a combination of commercial, international agency and U.S. based federal grant funding for visiting researchers. The task of these laboratories will be to seek pharmaco­logically, medically, and agriculturally useful biochemicals among the exceptionally diverse plant, and fungal […]

Whether one agrees or disagrees with the purpose, provisions, or probable consequences of the Cuban Liberty and Democratic Solidarity Act (the Cuban Liberty Act also popularly known as the Helms-Bur­ton Law, particularly in Cuba) is beside the point. On March 12, 1996, President Clinton signed the Cuban Liberty Act into law, having previously been approved […]

Notes1 Our objectives in this paper are to carry out a study to evaluate recent trends in the tourism industry, analyze Cuba’s perspectives and quantify the economic impact of tourism policy and activities on the island’s economy. The task entailed not only an assessment of Cuba’s specific conditions, but also positioning Cuba within the broader […]

Although financial reform is a difficult first step for achieving economic prosperity, the theoretical and empirical literature demonstrate that it is also a pow­erful tool for propelling economic growth. However, the reform process is also filled with a myriad of po­tential quagmires that can jeopardize both long-term and short-term economic development in transition economies. In […]