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Economy

 

Centro de Estudios sobre la Economia Cubana, Universidad de La Habana BOLETÍN CUATRIMESTRAL

An excellent source of economic analyses on the Cuban economy from the formost economic research institute in Cuba

 

General

The Economist, Cuba's economy: The demise of the free lunch, Oct 8th 2009

Philip Peters, "Raulonomics: Tough Diagnosis and Partial Prescriptions in Raul Castro’s
Economic Policies"
, Lexington Institute, Washington DC, July 2009

CARMELO MESA-LAGO, La paradoja económica cubana, El Pais, 12 July 2009

ROBERTO VEIGA GONZÁLEZ entrevista a Carmelo Mesa-Lago, "Estoy disponible para servir a mi Patria", Espacio Laical 1/2009

Janette Habel, "Cuban revolution fifty years on: Castro’s socialism in crisis", Le Monde diplomatique, February 2, 2009

Oscar Espinosa Chepe, "CUBA ANTE UN FUTURO INCIERTO", Cuba in Transition, ASCE, 2008

Joaquín P. Pujol, "ECONOMIC CHALLENGES FACING THE CUBAN AUTHORITIES", Cuba in Transition, ASCE, 2008

Emily Morris, Cuba’s Economy: Prospects for Change, (Power Point Presentation) Center for Strategic and International, Studies, Washington, December 2nd, 2008

Archibald R. M. Ritter, Cuba: Current Challenges and Alternate Economic Futures, (Power Point Presentation) Center for Strategic and International, Studies Washington D.C., December 2, 2008

Carmelo Mesa-Lago, "The Cuban Economy at the Crossroads: Fidel Castro’s Legacy, Debate over Change and Raúl Castro’s Option",  WP 19/2008, Real Instituto Elcano, Madrid

Oscar Espinoza Chepe, "Economía cubana: Expectativas y peligros", Encuentro de la Cultura Cubana, no. 50, Octubre de 2008

Jorge Mario Sánchez Egozcue and Juan Triana Cordoví, (University of Havana) "An Overview of the Cuban Economy, the Transformations Underway and the Prospective Challenges it Faces", WP 31/2008, Real Instituto Elcano, Madrid

Pedro Monreal, "El problema económico de Cuba", Espacio Laical, year III, no. 14, April-June 2008

Ernesto Hernández-Catá, "A BRIEF COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF GROSS DOMESTIC
PRODUCTION IN 'REVOLUTIONARY' CUBA", Cuba in Transition,
ASCE, 2008

Stephen Baranyi and Ann Weston, Editors, Policy Forum on the Cuban Economy: Challenges and Options, A Report, September 20, 2007, The North-South Institute, Ottawa, Canada

Reinaldo Escobar, "Una familia cubana concluye el 2006, Estudio sobre la economía doméstica de una familia cubana," Consenso; Desde Cuba, Numero 01, 2007

Carmelo Mesa-Lago, "Social and Economic Policy in Cuba: A Model of Integral Development for Latin America?" ARI 148/2005 (Translated from Spanish) Real Instituto Elcano, Madrid, 11/1/2006

Carmelo Mesa-Lago, "Problemas sociales y económicos en Cuba durante la crisis y la recuperación", Revista de la CEPAL, 86, Agosto, 2005

Jorge A. Sanguinetty, "LAS RUINAS INVISIBLES DE UNA SOCIEDAD: DESTRUCCIÓN Y
EVOLUCIÓN DEL CAPITAL SOCIAL EN CUBA", Cuba in Transition
, ASCE 2005

Mauricio de Miranda Parrondo, "The Cuban Economy: Amid Economic Stagnation and
Reversal of Reforms", Background Briefing,
RFC-05-01,FOCAL Canada, 2005

Paolo Spadoni, "FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN CUBA: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND ROLE IN THE ECONOMY", Cuba in Transition, ASCE, 2002

 

Agriculture

Marianela Martín y Haydée León, "Experimentarán nueva fórmula para el acopio y comercialización de productos agrícolas", Juventud Rebelde, 08 de junio de 2009

Dora Pérez, Marianela Martín, Odalis Riquenes, Luis Raúl Vázquez y Roberto Díaz, "La necesidad no tiene ciclo corto" Juventud Rebelde, 22 de marzo de 2009,

G.B. Hagelberg and José Alvarez, "CUBA’S DYSFUNCTIONAL AGRICULTURE: THE CHALLENGE FACING THE GOVERNMENT", Cuba in Transition, ASCE 2007

Armando Nova González, La necesidad de un modelo agrícola eficiente, (www.nodo50.org/cubasigloXXI/economia/novag2_310808) 2008,

G.B. Hagelberg and José Alvarez, COMMAND AND COUNTERMAND: CUBA’S SUGAR INDUSTRY UNDER FIDEL CASTRO, Cuba in transition, ASCE, 2006

G.B. Hagelberg and José Alvarez, "HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF CUBA’S COSTS OF SUGAR PRODUCTION: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE", Cuba in Transition, ASCE 2005

Philip Peters, Cutting Losses: Cuba Downsizes its Sugar Industry, Lexington Institute, Washington DC, 2003

 

Employment, Labour, Distributional and Equity Issues


James K. Galbraith, Laura Spagnolo and Daniel Munevar, "Pay Inequality in Cuba: the Special Period and After," ECINEQ WP 2006 – 52, The University of Texas Inequality Project, August 2006

 

Energy, Mines and Resources

Oscar Espinosa Chepe, "Desastre anunciado: Al igual que otros programas propagandísticos del castrismo, la llamada 'revolución energética' ha sido un chasco", Cubaencuentro, 1 de Julio de 2009

Mario Alberto Arrastía Avila, Increasing Renewable Energy, Juventud Rebelde, June 13, 2009

Juan Tomás Sánchez, Cuba y el Etanol: Proyeciones para una Economía Privada, Cuba in Transition, ASCE 2007

Jorge Hernández Fonseca, El Programa Brasileño de Etanol: Lecciones para Cuba, Cuba in Transition, ASCE 2007

Juan A. B. Belt and Luis Velazque, "CUBA: REFORMING THE POWER, ELECOMMUNICATIONS AND WATER SECTORS DURING A TRANSITION", Cuba in Transition, ASCE 2007

Jorge R. Piñón Cervera1, CUBA’S ENERGY CHALLENGE: A SECOND LOOK, Cuba in Transition, ASCE 2005

Jorge R. Piñón, CUBA’S ENERGY CHALLENGE: Fueling the Engine of Future Economic Growth, Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies Occasional Paper Series. University of Miami, March 2004

Entrepreneurship, Small Enterprise and the "Informal Economy"

Katherine Hirschfeld,"SOCIOLISMO AND THE UNDERGROUND CLINIC: THE INFORMAL ECONOMY AND HEALTH SERVICES IN CUBA", Cuba in Transition, ASCE 2006

Philip Peters, CUBA’S SMALL ENTREPRENEURS: Down But Not Out, Lexington Institute, Washington DC, 2005

Ted Henken, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, INFORMALITY, AND THE SECOND ECONOMY: CUBA’S UNDERGROUND ECONOMY IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE, Cuba in Transition, ASCE 2005

Ted Henken, SANTIAGO VS. HAVANA: CUBA’S UNDERGROUND ECONOMY IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE, Cuba in Transition, ASCE 2003

Archibald R. M. Ritter, : The Tax Regime for Microenterprise in Cuba," C E P A L Review 7 1, August 2000

Health and the Medical System

Richard S Cooper, Joan F Kennelly, and Pedro Ordunez-Garcia, "Health in Cuba", International Journal of Epidemiology, 2006; 35:817–824

Katherine Hirschfeld,"SOCIOLISMO AND THE UNDERGROUND CLINIC: THE INFORMAL ECONOMY AND HEALTH SERVICES IN CUBA", Cuba in Transition, ASCE 2006

 

Illegalities

Tom Brown, "Workplace theft saps Cuba's state-run economy" Reuters, June 25 2009

Archibald Ritter, "Economic Illegalities and the Underground Economy in Cuba", FOCAL Background Briefing on Cuba, RFC-06-01

 

International

Rolando Castaneda, LA AYUDA ECONÓMICA DE VENEZUELA A CUBA: SITUACIÓN Y PERSPECTIVAS. ¿ES SOSTENIBLE? - Misceláneas de Cuba (18 August 2009)

 

Macroeconomy and Monetary

Marc Frank, "Cuba's economy to falter in 2009 -Cuban experts", Reuters, HAVANA, May 18, 2009

Pavel Vidal Alejandro, "Los salarios, los precios y la dualidad monetaria", Espacio Laical, Febrero de 2008

Archibald R. M. Ritter, "The dual currency bifurcation of Cuba's economy in the 1990s: causes, consequences and cures", CEPAL Review Nº 57, December 1995

 

Social Security

Carmelo Mesa-Lago, "El envejecimiento de la población y la Seguridad Social en Cuba: UNA CARGA CRECIENTE", Espacio Laical, Suplemento Digital, No. 42, Septiembre 2008. No. 42

Carmelo Mesa-Lago, Social and economic problems in Cuba during the crisis and subsequent recovery, CEPAL Review, Nº 86, August 2005

 

Tourism

María Dolores Espino, International Tourism, An Up-Date, Cuba in Transition • ASCE 2008


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