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Cuba’s External Liquidity Crisis Takes Surprising Turns Luis R. Luis   Cuba is being pressed by external liquidity shortages for a number of years, the consequence of deteriorating production and export capacity.  Stagnant or falling farm output is a prime driver of consumption imports.  Receipts on the current account of the balance of payments are […]

Cuba’s Foreign Sector: Data for 2015 are (finally) available Ernesto Hernandez-Cata With an extraordinarily long delay, even by Cuba’s unusually foot-dragging standards, the National Office of Statistics and Information (ONEI) has finally released its complete set of statistics for the year 2015.[1] This comes a bit late to help the analyst interested in the short […]

It is with deep sadness that we learned of the passing of ASCE founding member Rolando Castañeda in Washington, D.C. on April 14.  Rolando was a very active contributor to ASCE as a board member and in numerous papers presented at our Annual Meetings and published in the Proceedings of the Association as well as […]

  Recent Trends in Cuban Migration Luis R. Luis   The announcement by President Barack Obama on January 12th that the US is terminating the policy of allowing Cubans that arrive without a visa to remain in the country is a major event for the island’s population and could also have significant economic implications.  In […]