Cuba in Transition: Volume 9

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

Biltmore Hotel
Coral Gables, Florida
August 12–14, 1999

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Front Matter

ASCE Membership and Contact Information

Table of Contents

Conference Program

• The State of the Cuban Economy 1998–1999
  Gary H. Maybarduk
• Cuba: The Current Situation
  Richard A. Nuccio
• The Effectiveness of Cuba's Banking Sector Reforms
  Armando S. Linde
  Comments by Manuel Lasaga
• Dollarization in Cuba and Implications for the Future Transition
  Arne C. Kildegaard and Roberto Orro Fernández
• Some Ideas for Taxation During Cuba's Transition
  Mark Gallagher
  Comments by René Costales
• The Self-Employed in Cuba: A Street Level View
  Benjamin Smith
• The Role of Small and Medium Size Enterprise in Cuba's Future
  Antonio Gayoso
• Un proyecto para la formación de profesionales internacionales para una Cuba en transición
  Jorge Luis Romeu
• Pirates or Partners? Cuba-Puerto Rico Commercial Relations in a Post-Embargo Scenario
  Julia Sagebien and Ramón Coto-Ojeda
• Normalized Trade Relations Between the United States and Cuba: Economic Impact on New Orleans and Louisiana
  Nicholas A. Robins and Maria F. Trujillo
• Factors Affecting the Potential Market in Cuba for Selected U.S. Forest Products
  James E. Ross
• Cuba's Armed Forces: Power and Reforms
  Domingo Amuchastegui
• Evolution, Transition and the Cuban Revolutionary Armed Forces
  Armando F. Mastrapa, III
• Havana Club: A Case Summary and an Analysis of Selected Legal Issues
  Stephen J. Kimmerling
• The Political Economy of the Internet in Cuba
  Nelson P. Valdés and Mario A. Rivera
  Comments by José Alberto Hernández Castillo
• Independent Agricultural Cooperatives in Cuba?
  José Alvarez
• A Preliminary Evaluation of the Needs for Agricultural Extension in a Free Cuba
  Larry S. Daley
• On Political Change in Cuba: A Comparative Introduction
  Mauricio Solaún
• Fidel Castro: A Machiavellian Prince?
  Alfred G. Cuzán
• Reflections on a Non-transition in Cuba: Comments on Elites
  Juan M. del Aguila
• Organización y Formación Democrática en Cuba
  José Antonio Font
• Macroeconomic Policy Issues for a Free-Market Cuba
  Jorge A. Sanguinetty
• Globalization, Transition and the Outlook for the Cuban Economy
  Ernesto Hernández-Catá
• Cuba y los antiguos países socialistas de Europa: la importancia de los aspectos institucionales y de economía política en la transición del socialismo a una economía de mercado
  Rolando Castañeda
• Measuring Cuban Public Opinion: Introduction
  Measuring Cuban Public Opinion: Methodology
  Churchill Roberts
  Comments by Mitchell A. Seligson
• Measuring Cuban Public Opinion: Economic, Social and Political Issues
  Ernesto F. Betancourt and Guillermo Grenier
  Comentarios de Ricardo A. Puerta
• Cuba's Economic "Reforms": Waiting for Fidel on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century
  Roger R. Betancourt
• Measures Not Taken: Issues for Today and Tomorrow
  Gary H. Maybarduk
• Actuarial Model of the Impact of Linking Economic Variables to a Life Survival Function
  Ricardo A. Donate-Armada
  Comments by Diego R. Roqué and Errata for Comments by Diego R. Roqué
• Cuba and American Public Opinion
  Daniel W. Fisk
  Comments by René Pérez-López
• The Cuba Solidarity Movement in the San Francisco Bay Area: Its Activities and Objectives, 1991–Present
  Fernando Socorro
  Comments by René Pérez-López
• Russian Oil-For-Sugar Barter Deals 1989–1999
  José F. Alonso and Ralph J. Galliano
• National Reconciliation in the Case of Cuba: Definition and Analysis
  Holly Ackerman
• Civil Society In Cuba: The Logic of Emergence in Comparative Perspective
  Juan Carlos Espinosa
• The Internal Opposition and Civil Society: An Assessment
  Enrique S. Pumar
• Forty Years After: A Candid Recount of Experiences at Tourism Destinations in Cuba
  Nicolás Crespo
• Key Environmental Legislation for Cuba's Transition Period
  Matías F. Travieso-Díaz
• Restitution of Property in Cuba: Lessons Learned From East Europe
  G. Douglas Harper
• Preliminary Study of the Impact of the Privatization of State-Owned Enterprises in Cuba
  Teo A. Babún, Jr.
• Agricultural Reform in Cuba: Implications for Agricultural Production, Markets and Trade
  William A. Messina, Jr.
• Policy Framework to Address Corruption in the Cuban Transition
  Beatriz C. Casals and Sergio Díaz-Briquets
• Corruption and the Cuban Transition
  Jorge F. Pérez-López
• Los llamados empresarios cubanos y la transición en la Isla
  Gerardo González Núñez
• Appendix A: Authors and Discussants
• Appendix B: Acknowledgements
• Back Matter