Cuba in Transition: Volume 19

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

The Hilton Miami Downtown Hotel
Miami, Florida
July 30–August 1, 2009

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Preface

Conference Program

Table of Contents

• The Cuban Economy in a World of Uncertainty
  Joaquín P. Pujol
• Crisis sobre crisis: la difícil situación económica, social y política de la sociedad cubana; probabilidades de su agravamiento
  Oscar Espinosa Chepe
• The Case Against Unlimited Travel to Cuba as an Agent of Democratization
  James Cason
• Comments on "The Case against Unlimited Travel to Cuba as an Agent for Democratization" by James Cason
  Gary H. Maybarduk
• Promoting Democratic Change in Cuba: A Retooled U.S. Policy to Foster Multilateral Support
  Maria C. Werlau
• ¿Por qué Raúl está medio correcto, pero totalmente errado? Cuba necesita acciones; no palabras
  Rolando H. Castañeda
• The Arduous Paths of Political Transitions: A Comparison of Cuba, China and Vietnam
  Enrique S. Pumar
• The Art of Doing Nothing: Agricultural Policy Making in Cuba
  Antonio Gayoso
• Challenges to the Manicero Productive Model in the Future Informal Economy of Cuba
  Chris Baker and Antonio Gayoso
• Actualidad laboral y sindical en Cuba: el movimiento sindical independiente en 2008
  Joel Brito
• El sistema laboral cubano y la irresponsabilidad social corporativa de los inversionistas extranjeros: puntos de vista de sindicalistas y periodistas independientes
  Rolando H. Castañeda y George Plinio Montalván
• Cuban External Finance and the Global Economic Crisis
  Luis R. Luis
• The Impact of the Global Financial and Economic Crisis on Cuba
  Lorenzo L. Pérez
• Democracy's Dimensions and Cuba's Development in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis
  Roger R. Betancourt
• Identifying and Locating Looted Artworks from Cuba
  Tania C. Mastrapa
• Restituting Looted Cuban Art
  Mari-Claudia Jiménez
• Cuban Socioeconomic Indicators before the Revolution: An International Comparison
  Luis Locay
• Cuban GDP Statistics Under the Special Period: Discontinuities, Obfuscation, and Puzzles
  Jorge Pérez-López and Carmelo Mesa-Lago
• Comments on "Cuban GDP Statistics under the Special Period: Discontinuities, Obfuscation, and Puzzles" by Pérez-López and Mesa-Lago
  Mario A. González-Corzo
• Lifting the Cuban Embargo: The New Labors of Hercules?
  Matias F. Travieso-Diaz
• Globalizing Cuba: ALBA and the Construction of Socialist Global Trade Systems
  Larry Catá Backer and Augusto I. Molina
• Perspectives on the Future of Guantanamo Bay
  Michael J. Strauss
• Cuban Agriculture: The Return of the Campesinado
  G.B. Hagelberg and José Alvarez
• Costos e inversión para una agricultura eficiente: arroz, frijol y maíz, y producción de caña de azúcar como referencia para lograr la autosuficiencia
  Juan Tomás Sánchez
• Economic Logic in Cuba's 2002 Sugar Industry Restructuring?
  Willard W. Radell
• Legal Dissent: Constitutional Proposals for "Cambio" in Cuba
  Ana Cristina Maldonado
• Cuban Corporatism: Batista's Three-Year Plan and a Nation Betrayed
  Brenden Marino Carbonell
• Monetary Policy in Cuba
  Silvia Dreher
• Cuban Tourism and Its Effects on The Import Sector
  Rachel Alt
• The Cuban Sugar Dilemma: The Prospect for a Green Future
  Christian Santiago Patiño
• Conceptual Design of a Wastewater Treatment Plant for the Municipality of Cotorro, Province of Havana, Cuba
  Cristina Ortega-Castineiras, Karen Kajder, and Reshma Ramoutar
• Bacardi and the Future of Cuba
  Tom Gjelten
• A Bountiful Legacy: U.S. Investment and Economic Diversification in Cuba During the 1950s
  Eric N. Baklanoff
• Petrolism in Cuba and Implications of U.S. Investment in the Cuban Oil Sector
  Roberto Orro
• Comment on: "Petrolism in Cuba": Notes on Medical Diplomacy and Investment Risk Factors
  Maria C. Werlau
• Fifteen Years of Entrepreneurship in Cuba: Challenges and Opportunities
  Joseph L. Scarpaci
• Cuba: Economic Growth and International Linkages—Challenges for Measurement and Vulnerabilities in a Bimonetary Economy
  Gabriel Di Bella and Andy Wolfe
• Economic and Social Balance of 50 Years of Cuban Revolution
  Carmelo Mesa-Lago
• The Impact of the World Economic Crisis on Cuba's Healthcare System and Biotechnology Sector
  Elaine Scheye
• La ayuda económica de Venezuela a Cuba: situación y perspectivas—¿Es sostenible?
  Rolando H. Castañeda
• El comportamiento de los receptores de remesas en Cuba por inferencia del comportamiento de los receptores de remesas en América Latina
  Joaquín Pérez Rodríguez
• On Remittances, Markets and the Law: The Cuban Experience in Present Times
  Manuel Orozco
• ASCE's Contributions to the Literature on Remittances: 1991–2008
  Mario A. González-Corzo
• Can Cuba Avoid Becoming a Narco-State?
  Gary H. Maybarduk
• The 2008 Hurricane Season and its Impact on Cuban Agriculture and Trade
  William A. Messina, Jr.
• The Enduring Cuban Housing Crisis: The Impact of Hurricanes
  Sergio Díaz-Briquets
• Cuba's Emergency Management and the Need for a Holistic Understanding of Risk
  B. E. Aguirre
• "Sin Solidaridad no hay libertad": a 20 años del comienzo de un cambio de era
  Dagoberto Valdés
• Cuban Civil Society Revisited: An Examination of the Theory and Reality
  Simone Grant
• Privatization or Self-Strenghthening for the Water Sector in Cuba?: Lessons Learned from the Water Sector in Puerto Rico
  Jorge Rodríguez Ruiz
• Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Priorities for Cuba with Emphasis on Havana, Including Some Benefit-Cost Considerations
  Armando I. Perez, Roberto Cardona, Luis Locay, and Helena M. Solo-Gabriele
• Transportation Infrastructure in a Free Cuba: How to Meet Demands in a Challenging Economic Environment
  Sergio Alfonso, Jr., and Carlos A. Penin
• A Power Sector Analysis for Cuba using the Markal Model
  Evelyn Wright, Juan A. B. Belt, Adam Chambers, Pat Delaquil, and Gary Goldstein
• Appendix A: About the Authors
• Appendix B: Acknowledgements