Cuba in Transition: Volume 20

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

The Hilton Miami Downtown Hotel
Miami, Florida
July 29–31, 2010

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

Preface

Conference Program

Table of Contents

• The Cuban Economy in 2010 as Seen by Economists Within the Island and Other Observers
  Joaquín P. Pujol
• La economía cubana: ¿tiempos de esperanza?
  Oscar Espinosa Chepe
• Crisis Management of Cuban International Liquidity
  Luis R. Luis
• If It Were Just the Marabú… Cuba's Agriculture 2009–10
  G.B. Hagelberg
• The Numbers Diet: Food Imports as Economic Indicators
  Lauren Gifford
• Government-Controlled Travel Costs to Cuba and Costs of Related Consular Services: Analysis and International Comparisons
  Sergio Díaz-Briquets
• Envíos de remesas a Cuba: desarrollo, evolución e impacto
  Emilio Morales Dopico
• Dashed Expectations: Raúl Castro's Management of The Cuban Economy, 2006–2010
  Jorge F. Pérez-López
• Cuba: ¿hacia otro "Periodo Especial"?
  Mario A. González-Corzo
• Cuban Education and Human Capital Formation
  Enrique S. Pumar
• La masonería cubana y su contribución a la sociedad civil
  Jorge Luis Romeu
• The Internet and Emergent Blogosphere in Cuba: Downloading Democracy, Booting Up Development, or Planting the Virus of Dissidence and Destabilization?
  Ted Henken
• El insostenible apoyo económico de Venezuela a Cuba y sus implicaciones
  Rolando H. Castañeda
• Cuba-Venezuela Health Diplomacy: The Politics of Humanitarianism
  Maria C. Werlau
• British Policy-Making and Our Leyland in Havana (1963–1964)
  Maria Carla Chicuén
• La desigualdad en Cuba: el color cuenta
  Natalie Kitroeff
• A Macroeconomic Approach to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Inflow from the People's Republic of China to Cuba
  Orlando R. Villaverde
• A Survey of the Relationship between Cuba and China: A Chinese Perspective
  Pin Zuo
• The Evolution of the Cuban Military: A Comparative Look at the FAR with the Bureaucratic-Authoritarian Model of South America
  Michael Aranda
• Empowering the Cuban People Through Access to Technology
  Cuba Study Group
• The Global Economic and Financial Crisis and Cuba's Healthcare and Biotechnology Sector: Prospects For Survivorship and Longer-term Sustainability
  Elaine Scheye
• Globalization and the Socialist Multinational: Cuba and ALBA's Grannacional Projects at the Intersection of Business and Human Rights
  Larry Catá Backer
• Racismo estructural en Cuba y disidencia política: breves antecedentes
  Ramón Humberto Colás
• Arbitration and Mediation: Impartial Forums to Resolve International Commercial Disputes in Cuba
  Rolando Anillo-Badia
• Gazing at the Green Light: The Legal and Business Aspects of Real Property Investment in Cuba
  Richard M. David
• The Creation and Evolution of the Legal Black Hole at Guantánamo Bay
  Michael J. Strauss
• Las relaciones Cuba-Israel: a la espera de una nueva etapa
  Arturo López-Levy
• Revolutionary Cuba's GDP: A Survey of Methods and Estimates
  Jorge F. Pérez-López
• A Dynamic Factor Model of Quarterly Real Gross Domestic Product Growth in the Caribbean: The Case of Cuba and the Bahamas
  Philip Liu and Rafael Romeu
• Cuba's Attempts at Democracy: The Colony
  Roger R. Betancourt
• Lessons Learned from 20 Years of Privatization: Albania, Estonia and Russia
  Jorge A. Sanguinetty and Tania Mastrapa
• The Cuban Tourism Sector: A Note On Performance in the first Decade of the 21st Century
  María Dolores Espino
• Prospects for Tourism in Cuba: Report on the Residential Sales/Leases in Golf and Marina Developments
  Antonio R. Zamora
• Appendix A: About the Authors
• Appendix B: Evaluation of Cuba's Water and Watershed Infraestructure.
  Josenrique Cueto and Omar De Leon
  (student paper presented in the annual meeting but not included in the printed version of the proceedings)