Cuba in Transition: Volume 15

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

Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus
Miami, Florida
August 4–6, 2005

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Preface

Conference Program

Table of Contents

• The Cuban Economy in 2004–2005
  Carmelo Mesa-Lago
• The Cuban Economy in 2005
  Jorge A. Sanguinetty
• Institutions, Markets, and Economic Performance: Implications for Cuba
  Roger R. Betancourt
• Malformaciones Estructurales de la Economía Cubana
  Manuel García Díaz
• Las Ruinas Invisibles de una Sociedad: Destrucción y Evolución del Capital Social en Cuba
  Jorge A. Sanguinetty
• Deconstructing "Constructive Engagement": Canada's Economic Relations with Cuba, 1993–2003
  Eric N. Baklanoff and LaShondra Jones
• An Assessment of ECLAC's "Política Social y Reformas Estructurales: Cuba a Principios del Siglo XXI"
  Carmelo Mesa-Lago and Jorge Pérez-López
• La Economía Cubana en Cifras: ¿Una Economía Real o Virtual?
  Manuel García Díaz
• Cuba's Energy Challenge: A Second Look
  Jorge R. Piñón Cervera
• Commentary on "Cuba's Energy Challenge: A Second Look" by Piñón Cervera
  Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado
• La Globalización en la Industria Cañera (Sucro-alcoholera) y el Brasil: El Interés para Cuba
  Juan Tomás Sánchez
• Real Property Restitution: Risks for Claimants and Investors
  Tania C. Mastrapa
• Land Title Registration In Cuba: Past, Present, and Future
  José Manuel Pallí
• Taxation of Cuban Confiscated Assets After Property Claims Settlements: Issues for Taxpayers and the U.S. Government
  Timothy Ashby and Tania Mastrapa
• Housing Cooperatives: Possible Roles in Havana's Residential Sector
  Mario A. González Corzo
• The Agricultural Export Facilitation Act of 2005: Its Rationale and Relevance for U.S.-Cuba Trade
  Terry L. Maris
• General Equilibrium Analysis of Florida Agricultural Exports to Cuba
  Michael O'Connell
• The Spanish Caribbean and its Influence on a Transition in Cuba
  Jorge Luis Romeu
• Los Españoles en Cuba: Conflictos y Estereotipos
  Dominga González Suárez
• The Riverine Gallery Forests: The Chill Abode of the Jigüe
  Larry Daley
• Los Efectos Perversos de las Sanciones de los Estados Unidos para una Transición Cubana
  Rolando H. Castañeda
• U.S.-Cuba Policy: Strengthening Civil Society, Establishing Democracy
  Felipe Eduardo Sixto
• U.S. Cuba Policy: Will We Get It Right This Time?
  Alberto Luzárraga
• La Actual Política Exterior de EUA Respecto a Cuba
  René Monserrat
• El Valioso y Elusivo Componente Cultural en el Apoyo a la Sociedad Civil
  Soren Triff
• Ir o No Ir, Esa No es la Cuestión
  Eudel Cepero
• Which Transition? A Contrarian Look at Post-Castro Cuba
  Ed Canler
• The Report of the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba: Big Book—Good Advice?
  Juan Tomás Sánchez
• Key Lessons Learned from the Transition to a Market Economy in Asia, Europe, and Latin America Over the Last 15 Years: Application to Cuba
  Rolando H. Castañeda
• Routes Out of Socialism as Path-Dependent Process: Central Europe's Experiences and Lessons for Cuba
  Ryszard Zukowski
• Courts of Special Jurisdiction in a Post-Transition Cuba
  Matias F. Travieso-Diaz and Armando A. Musa
• Survival Strategies and Economic Illegalities in Cuba
  Archibald Ritter
• Entrepreneurship, Informality, and the Second Economy: Cuba's Underground Economy in Comparative Perspective
  Ted Henken
• Fidel Castro, Inc.: A Global Conglomerate
  Maria C. Werlau
• Remittances to Cuba: A Survey of Methods and Estimates
  Jorge Pérez-López and Sergio Díaz-Briquets
• Cuba, China, Venezuela: New Developments
  Daniel Erikson
• Assimilation or Transnationalism? Conceptual Models of the Immigrant Experience in America
  Silvia Pedraza
• Demystifying a Bilateral Relationship: Rise and Fall of the Mexican-Cuban Political Understanding
  Enrique Romero
• La Mulata: Cuba's National Symbol
  Tamara Kneese
• Cuba's "New" Peso Food Chain: Linkages and Implications for U.S. Exporters
  James E. Ross and María Antonia Fernández Mayo
• Historical Overview of Cuba's Costs of Sugar Production: Implications for the Future
  G.B. Hagelberg and José Alvarez
• Algunos de los Beneficios de la Alianza Cubano-Venezolana Para El Régimen Castrista
  Hernán Yanes
• When Oil Lubricates Fascism: The Venezuelan-Cuban Connection
  Gustavo Coronel
• The Geopolitics of Oil
  Beatrice E. Rangel
• Appendix A: About the Authors
• Appendix B: Acknowledgements