This paper presents findings of a case study of a sug­arcane-farming cooperative (cooperativa de producción agropecuaria, CPA) located in the province of Ha­vana, Cuba. Although the internal dynamics of spe­cific Cuban cooperative farms have been examined by Cuban researchers, the results of their studies are not readily available in the United States. [ref]An exception is […]

Cuba was the first country to produce cement in Latin America, on July 7, 1895, two years before Brazil. The Cuban cement industry now bears the scars of its politics. The nation’s cement makers have to use some of the Western world’s most outdated equipment, and are producing at low levels of capacity utilization only […]

Nos proponemos en este trabajo explorar los siguientes aspectos: 1) los niveles de educación y la participación en el mercado laboral de la mujer cubana en los Estados Unidos; 2) los campos en que la mujer en el exilio se ha destacado y aquellos en que su presencia es menos notable y por qué; y […]

This paper describes the legal bases for a privatization program in Cuba during its free-market transition.2 An adequate legal framework will be necessary to remove Cuba’s state-owned enterprises (“SOEs”) from state control and allow the resulting private entities to function efficiently. Recent examples of successful privatization programs from which one can draw guidance for Cuba […]

In any discussion of the effects of economic sanctions it should be clear that sanctions are potentially harmful or costly to not only the target nation, but also the sanctioning countries. The potential harm will be dependent on the degree of substitution in trade and capital markets, i.e., on “fungibility.” Even if sanctions impose harm […]