Cuba in Transition: Volume 6

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

University of Miami
Miami, Florida
August 8–10, 1996

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Preface

Table of Contents

Conference Program

• In Honor of Felipe Pazos
  Roberto González Cofino
• The State of the Cuban Economy: 1995–96
  Carmelo Mesa-Lago
• Apuntes sobre la situacion socio-económica de Cuba
  Pablo Alfonso
• Remarks on the Current Cuban Economic Situation
  Gerardo González
• Cuba's Non-Sugar Agriculture: Current Situations and Prospects
  William A. Messina, Jr., Thomas H. Spreen, Anne E. Moseley and Charles M. Adams
• External Debt Problems and the Principle of Solidarity: The Cuban Case
  Alberto Martínez-Piedra and Lorenzo L. Pérez
  Comments by Armando P. Ribas
• Cuba's Hard Currency Debt
  Gabriel Fernández
  Comments by Alberto Luzárraga
• Cuba: estabilización rápida sin recesión ni choque monetario
  Rolando H. Castañeda y George Plinio Montalván
• The Minimum Wage and Unemployment in Poland: Lessons for Cuba's Transition
  Andrew M. Melnyk
  Comments by Ernesto Hernández-Catá
• Alternative Policies to Deal With Labor Surpluses During the Cuba Transition
  Joseph M. Perry, Louis A. Woods and Jeffrey W. Steagall
  Comments by Ricardo L. Tejada
• Labor Effects of Adjustment Policies in Cuba
  Enrique S. Pumar
  Comments by Ricardo L. Tejada
• Un "logro" que tiende a desmoronarse
  Marta Beatriz Roque Cabello
• The Optimal Size of the Military in a Post-Castro Cuba
  Carlos Seigle
  Comments by Diego R. Roque
• Cuban Military Expenditures: Concepts, Data and Burden Measures
  Jorge F. Pérez-López
• Cuban Telecommunication Infrastructure and Investment
  Larry Press
• Foreign Investors' Property Rights and Legal Guaranties Against Non-Commercial Risks in Cuba
  Sergio A. Leiseca
• Agribusiness Investment in Cuba's Post Embargo Period
  James E. Ross
• Cuba y el estado de derecho: pasado, presente y futuro
  Alberto Luzárraga
• Cuba's New Agricultural Cooperatives and Markets: Antecedents, Organization, Early Performance and Prospects
  Jose Álvarez and William A. Messina, Jr.
• Back to the Future: The Sociopolitical Dynamics of Miramar's Real Estate Market
  Joseph L. Scarpaci
• Through the Cracks of Socialism: The Emerging Private Sector in Cuba
  Ana Julia Jatar-Hausman
• Cinco áreas de acción estratégicas para lograr el Milagro Económico Cubano: una rápida recuperación con un alto y sustentable crecimiento con equidad e inclusión social
  Rolando H. Castañeda y George Plinio Montalván
• Marxism and the Market: Vietnam and Cuba in Transition
  Julie Marie Bunck
• Comparison of International Monetary Fund and World Bank Conditionalities and Cuba's Economic Reforms of the 1990s
  Ramon C. Barquín III
• The 1995–1996 Sugar Zafra: Results and Implications-The Machinery Sector
  Alfredo Blanco, Jr.
• Cuba: An Unreliable Producer of Sugar
  Juan Tomás Sánchez
• Decentralization, Local Government and Citizen Participation in Cuba
  Nelson Amaro
• Sociedad civil, control social y estructura del poder en Cuba
  Maida Donate-Armada
• The Future Faces of the Cuban Economy: A Bayesian Forecast
  Barton J. Bernales
  Comments by Jorge Luis Romeu
• The Effect of Socialism on the Entrepreneurial Abilities of Cuban-Americans
  Luis Locay and Jorge Sanguinetty
  Comments by Silvia Pedraza
• Information on the Cuban Economy in Databases
  Isabel Ezquerra
• Cuban Computer Networks and Their Impact
  Larry Press
• Transformations and Transitions: The Changing Nature of Labor Organizations in Post-Communist Europe and the Implications for Labor in Cuba
  Guillermo J. Grenier
• The Situation of Cuban Workers During the "Special Period in Peacetime"
  Efrén Córdova
  Comments by Lorenzo Cañizares
• Are Cuba's Educational Statistics Reliable?
  Benigno E. Aguirre and Roberto J. Vichot
  Comments by Erwin H. Epstein
• Cuban Constitutionalism and Rights: An Overview of the Constitutions of 1901 and 1940
  Rebeca Sánchez-Roig
• Constitutional Protection of Cuban Property Rights
  Ignacio E. Sánchez
• Righting Old Wrongs: A Survey of Restitution Schemes for Possible Application to a Democratic Cuba
  Nicolas J. Gutiérrez, Jr.
• Forestry Policies of Cuba's Socialist Government: An Appraisal
  Sergio Díaz-Briquets
  Comments by René Costales
• The Quest for Power: Analyzing the Costs and Benefits of Cuba's Nuclear Energy Policy
  Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado
  Comments by Osvaldo A. Juvier
• Tourism/Ecotourism in Cuba
  David S. Collis
• Foreign Investment in Cuba: The Limits of Commercial Engagement
  María C. Werlau
• Helms-Burton: Checkmate or Challenge for Canadian Firms Doing Business in Cuba?
  Beverly L. Campbell
• On the Continued Good Standing of Pre-Castro Legal Entities: Ubi Lex Non Distinguit,...Nec Nos Distinguere Debemus
  Agustín de Goytisolo
  Comments by Juan C. Consuegra-Barquín
• Appendix A: Authors and Discussants
• Appendix B: Acknowledgements