Cuba in Transition: Volume 12

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

Omni Colonnade Hotel
Coral Gables, Florida
August 1-3, 2002

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Conference Program

Cuba: La Crisis Se Profundiza

Oscar Espinosa Chepe

Cuba: Una Visión Periodística

Pablo Alfonso

The State, Institutions and the Market Economy: Institutions for the Private Sector in Transition Economies

Guy Pfeffermann

Combating Corruption: From Words to Deeds

Miguel Schloss

Update on Cuban Dollarization

Roberto Orro

Parasitismo Económico y Su Impacto en el Tránsito Hacia el Mercado

Manuel García Díaz

Lecciones de la Experiencia deReformas y de la Crisis Argentina para la Transición Cubana: Importancia del Proyecto Varela

Rolando H. Castañeda

The Role of Education in Promoting Cuba's Integration into the International Society: Lessons in Transition from the Post-Communists States of Central and Eastern Europe

Andy S. Gomez

Rehabilitando la Educación en la Cuba que Transita

Graciella Cruz-Taura

Alternative Recommendations for Dealing with Expropriated U.S. Property In Post-Castro Cuba

Matías F. Travieso-Díaz, Esq.

Let There Be Candy for Everyone: Reform, Regulation, and Rent-Seeking in the Republic of Cuba, 1902-1952

Mary Speck

Corrupción Actual en Cuba: Herencia y Vicio

Ricardo A. Puerta

Combating Corruption in Post-Castro Cuba

Sergio Díaz-Briquets and Jorge Pérez-López

Foreign Investment in Cuba: Recent Developments and Role in the Economy

Paolo Spadoni

Foreign Investment in Cuba: Prospects and Perils

Matias F. Travieso-Diaz and Charles P. Trumbull IV

Las Negociaciones Internacionales Actuales de Cuba

Francisco León

Selected Aspects of Cuba's Intellectual Property Laws

Jesús (Jay) Sanchelima

Havana Club in the WTO: Herein of International Law and American Power

Alan Swan

Restoration of Cuban Gallery Forests, Especially on the Banks of the Bayamo and Other Rivers of the Cauto Basin

Larry S. Daley

Raíces del Prejuicio Norteamericano en Cuba

Dominga González Suárez

Democratization and Migration: Cuba's Exodus and the Development of Civil Society

Silvia Pedraza

The Impact on the U.S. Economy of Lifting Restrictions on Travel to Cuba

Dorothy Robyn, James D. Reitzes and Bryan Church

Overview of Cuba's Dollar Food Market: An Exploration of the Purchasing and Distribution System

James E. Ross and Maria Antonia Fernández Mayo

¿El Estado Para el Hombre o el Hombre Para el Estado? Un Coloquio Constitucional Sobre la Tercera República

Alberto Luzárraga

Privatizando el Socialismo: Justicia Social Con Desarrollo Económico

Manuel Pérez Torres

Challenges for a Transitional Judiciary in a Post-Castro Cuba

Mario Díaz-Cruz, III

Revolutionary Leaders, Ideology and Change

Erin Ennis

An Evaluation of Four Decades of Cuban Healthcare

Felipe Eduardo Sixto

"Vale Todo" (Anything Goes): Cuba's Paladares

Ted Henken

Impact of September Eleven on Tourism Activities in Cuba and in the Caribbean

Nicolás Crespo and Charles Suddaby

Trinidad's Tourism: Between "Glocal" Heritage and National Economic Development

Joseph L. Scarpaci

Implicaciones Económicas de la Constitución del 40: Lecciones para el Futuro

Jorge A. Sanguinetty

The U.S. Constitution and Private Property: Reflections for Cuba

Juan A. B. Belt

Castro's Choices: The Economics of Economic Sanctions

Gary M. Shiffman

Cuba's Future Economic Crisis: The Ageing Population and the Social Safety Net

Sergio Díaz-Briquets

A General Equilibrium Model of Family Remittances to Cuba: Or Why Is It So Expensive to Send Money to the Island?

Luis Locay

A Bias for Hope — Migration, Opportunity Cost, and Democratic Coalitions

Enrique S. Pumar

Energy in Cuba

Amy Myers Jaffe and Ronald Soligo

Action Plan for the Reconstruction of the Cuban Sugar Industry

Pablo A. Carreño

Theoretical and Empirical Reflections on the Future of Cuban Agriculture

José Alvarez

Health Care in Cuba and in the United States of America: An Eclectic Approach

Gloria Casal, Antonio A. Fernández, Pedro Melchor González and Pedro F. Pellet

Cuba in the Human Development Index in the 1990s: Decline, Rebound and Exclusion

Carmelo Mesa-Lago

A Model for the Establishment of a Market-Driven Software Industry in a Post Socialist Cuba

Joel C. Font

Social Mechanisms and Political Order

Enrique S. Pumar

The Stability of the Institutions of the Cuban State During the Transition

B. E. Aguirre

The Survival of the Cuban Regime: A Political Economy Perspective

Javier Corrales

The Cuban Economy in an Unending Special Period

Jorge F. Pérez-López

The Cuban Transition in the Light of the Lessons of Ten Years of Experience in the Former Soviet Bloc

Ernesto F. Betancourt

Valoraciones sobre el documento "The Cuban Transition in the Light of the Lessons of Ten Years of Experience in the Former Soviet Bloc" de Ernesto F. Betancourt

Marta Beatriz Roque Cabello

Appendix A: Authors and Discussants

Appendix B: Acknowledgements

Backmatter


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