On the Recent Decline in Cuba’s Participation Rate Ernesto Hernández-Catá This article seeks to explain the recent decline in Cuba’s participation rate with particular attention to the role of cyclical factors, demographic conditions, and the government’s labor market policies. The ups and downs of the participation rate. Cyclical explanations and recent mysteries. […]
Cuba’s External Liquidity Crisis Takes Surprising Turns
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
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 […]
Rolando Castaneda
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
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 […]
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