Cuba in Transition: Volume 7

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

Miami, Florida
August 7–9, 1997

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Title Page and Preface

Conference Program

• The Cuban Economy in Mid–1997
  Jorge F. Pérez-López
• The Structural Transformation of the Cuban Economy: A Report of the Last Twelve Months
  Jorge A. Sanguinetty
• Cuban Non-Sugarcane Agricultural Trade Patterns: Historical Perspectives and Future Prospects
  William A. Messina, Jr., Richard N. Brown, James E. Ross and José Alvarez
• Women and Post-Cold War Socialism: The Cases of Cuba and Vietnam
  Julie Marie Bunck
• La mujer cubana en los Estados Unidos: algunas consideraciones sobre su aporte socioeconómico y las modificaciones de su papel
  Uva de Aragón
• Prospects for Cuba's Entrepreneurs after Transition: A Comparative Analysis
  Ricardo Tejada
• Development Stages of the "Cuban Exile Country"
  Miguel González-Pando
• Canadians in Cuba: Getting to Know Each Other Better
  Julia Sagebien
• Update on Foreign Investment in Cuba: 1996–97
  María C. Werlau
• Cuba: una plena reinserción internacional comercial y financiera con estabilización rápida, sin recesión y con crecimiento alto, estable y sustentable
  Rolando H. Castañeda y George Plinio Montalván
• Cuba's Tourism Industry
  Charles Suddaby
• Impact of the Helms-Burton Law (the Cuban Liberty Act) on Cuban Tourism
  Saturnino E. Lucio II and Nicolás Crespo
  Comments by Artimus Keiffer
• Cuban Tourism, Economic Growth, and the Welfare of the Cuban Worker
  Joseph M. Perry, Jeffrey W. Steagall and Louis A. Woods
• Cuban Tourism in 2007: Economic Impact
  Nicolás Crespo and Santos Negrón Díaz
• Transición y recuperación económica en Cuba
  Gerardo González
• Algunos apuntes sobre la teoría de la transición social
  Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello
• Propuesta para el reordenamiento de la economía cubana: aspectos institucionales y financieros
  Rodolfo A. Carrandi
• Liberalization and the Behavior of Output During the Transition from Plan to Market
  Ernesto Hernández-Catá
• Growth and Technological Change in Cuba
  Manuel Madrid-Aris
• Is U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Cuba Justifiable?
  Mauricio Solaún
• The Political Economy of Trade Sanctions: The Case of Cuba
  Carlos Seiglie
• Implication of the U. S. Economic Embargo for a Political Transition in Cuba
  Juan J. López
• Social Forces and the Politics of Transition: Lessons from the Cuban Experience
  Enrique S. Pumar
• Cuba: Cooperación internacional de emergencia y para la recuperación
  Rolando H. Castañeda y George Plinio Montalván
  Comments by Ernesto Hernández-Catá
• Enfoque crítico al documento "Apoyo para una transición democrática en Cuba"
  Maida Donate-Armada
• Privatización en Cuba: ¿Factor de unión y desarrollo o de conflicto social?
  Alberto Luzárraga
• Legal Foundations for a Successful Privatization Program in Cuba
  Matias F. Travieso-Díaz and Alejandro Ferraté
• The Implications of Good Governance for the Reconstruction of Cuba
  Lorenzo L. Pérez
  Comments by Roger R. Betancourt
• The Welfare State and its Ethical Implications: A Viable Alternative for Post-Castro's Cuba?
  Alberto Martínez-Piedra
  Comments by Roger R. Betancourt
• Cuba's Cement Industry
  Teo A. Babún, Jr.
• Bioprospecting in a Post-Castro Cuba
  Larry Daley
• Fundamento constitucional de la transición en Cuba
  José D. Acosta
• Constitución y cambio democrático en Cuba
  René Gómez Manzano
• La Constitución de 1940: Simbolismo y vigencia
  Néstor Carbonell Cortina
• El Tribunal Constitucional y su organización: Una propuesta de reforma
  Alberto Luzárraga
• Comentarios sobre el artículo XVII sobre Hacienda de la Constitución de 1940 de Cuba
  Lorenzo L. Pérez
• Institution-Building: Financial Sector Reform in Cuba
  Yosem E. Companys
• Avoiding Managerial Human Capital Loss in Transition II Sugar Factories
  Willard W. Radell
• An Empirical Study of Income and Performance Incentives on a Cuban Sugarcane CPA
  Frederick S. Royce, William A. Messina, Jr. and José Alvarez
• Property Rights, Technology, and Land Degradation: A Case Study of Santo Domingo, Cuba
  Héctor Sáez
  Comments by José Alvarez
• The Environment and the Cuban Transition
  Sergio Díaz-Briquets and Jorge F. Pérez-López
• Appendix A: Authors and Discussants
  Appendix B: Acknowledgements