Cuba in Transition: Volume 16

Papers and Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual Meeting of the
Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE)

Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus
Miami, Florida
August 3–5, 2006

All of the papers posted here are in PDF format and can be read with Acrobat Reader software.


Table of Contents

Preface

Conference Program

Table of Contents

The Cuban Economy in 2005–2006: The End of the Special Period?

Jorge F. Pérez-López

La Crisis de la Producción Agropecuaria Cubana: Causas y Posibles Soluciones

Oscar Espinosa Chepe

Inflation Targeting: Monetary Policy Contribution to a Rules-Based Approach to Managing the Cuban Economy

Armando S. Linde

Financial Services, Poverty and Enterprise: The Case of Cuba

Antonio Gayoso

Labor Market Distortions and Speed of Transition in Eastern Europe: Implications for Cuba

Luis Locay

Cuba’s De-Dollarization Program: Principal Characteristics and Possible Motivations

Mario A. González-Corzo

Assessing Fiscal Management and Central Banking in Cuba and Proposals for Improvement

Lorenzo L. Pérez

Power Sector Reforms in Market and Transition Economies: Lessons for Cuba

Juan A. B. Belt

Cuba’s Unique Remittance Landscape: A Comparative Perspective

Mario A. González-Corzo and Scott Larson

Cuba’s Ranking in the Fitzgibbon Democracy Index: Reflecting a Leftist Bias?

Alfred G. Cuzán

Can Cuba Escape the Corruption Curse?

Daniel P. Erikson

Command and Countermand: Cuba’s Sugar Industry under Fidel Castro

G.B. Hagelberg and José Alvarez

Cuba’s Strategic Economic Re-Orientation

Archibald R. M. Ritter

Cuba: Medidas para Desencadenar y Hacer Mejor la Transición hacia una Economía de Mercado

Rolando H. Castañeda

La Reconstrucción de Cuba: Dificultades, Reflexiones y Soluciones

Salvador Larrúa Guedes

Sin Amo Pero Con Patria

Rafael E. Saumell

Paradojas Culturales y Contradicciones Políticas de la Identidad Exiliada Cubana

Soren Triff

Political Exile, Transnationality, and the Racialized Cuban

B. E. Aguirre

Before and After the Cayo Coco Causeway, Cuba: A Critical View from Space

Eudel Cepero and Angelique Lawrence

Comment: Analyzing the Cuban Environment Using Remote Sensing

Kathleen G. Perez-Lopez

Evaluación de Mapas de Riesgos y Recursos de la Problemática Actual en el Municipio de la Habana Vieja

Luis Muñoz

Comment: Remotely-Sensed and GIS Research on Jardines Del Rey and Habana Vieja

Joseph L. Scarpaci

Descriptions of Pernicious Attempts to Gain Control of the World Wide Web: The Cuba Case

Larry Daley

La Tutela Jurisdiccional de los Derechos Reales Inmobiliarios en Cuba: Discurso Jurídico y Reajuste Socioeconómico

Orlando Rivero-Valdés

Land Tenure in Cuba: Implications and Potential Models for Foreign Real Property Holdings and Investment in a Future Cuba

Timothy Ashby and Scott R. Jablonski

Violations of Freedom of the Press in Cuba: 1952–1969

Kelsey Vidaillet

Experimenting with Change: An Anthropological Perspective on Cuban Micro-Enterprise

Elena Sacchetti

Cuban Trade and Tourism: Economic, Political, and Social Concerns

Felipe Eduardo Sixto

Tourism Development, Economic Opening Up, and Planning Issues in Cuba Since 1989

Andrea Colantonio

Sociolismo and the Underground Clinic: The Informal Economy and Health Services in Cuba

Katherine Hirschfeld

Father Knows Best? Cuba’s Proactive Approach to Healthcare Delivers Results but Paternalism Brings Some Compromises

Elizabeth Kath

FAR—New Generations in Power: Understanding a Scenario of Continuity

Domingo Amuchástegui

Cubans in the Island and in the U.S. Diaspora: Selected Demographic and Social Comparisons

Daniel J. Perez-Lopez

Farm Household Livelihood Strategies: Preliminary Findings of a Case Study of Fifteen Households with Limited Resources in the Sierra del Rosario of Western Cuba

Vanessa K. Harper, Lianne Fernández Granda, Peter E. Hildebrand, and William A. Messina, Jr.

U.S. Sanctions Against Cuba: A Just War Perspective

Philip Peters

Cuban Global Emigration at the Turn of the Century: Overall Estimate and Selected Characteristics of the Emigrant Population

Sergio Díaz-Briquets

Balseros in Alabama: Refugee Resettlement Experiences and the Divided Fates of Cuban Rafters in the New South

Ted Henken

Appendix A: About the Authors

Appendix B: Acknowledgements


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