Cuba in Transition: Volume 14

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

Wyndham Grand Bay Hotel
Miami, Florida
August 5–7, 2004

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Conference Program

Table of Contents

Un Regimen Cambiario para la Transición

Jorge A. Sanguinetty

The Three Cs of Caribbean Tourism: Contexts, Characteristics, and Consequences

Art Padilla

Tourism in Havana During the Special Period: Impacts, Residents' Perceptions, and Planning Issues

Andrea Colantonio

Incentives for Legal Reform in Transition Economies

Jennifer Gauck

International Law and Other Considerations on the Repatriation of Cuban Balseros by the United States

By Maria C. Werlau

Disasters in Cuba

B. E. Aguirre

Race, Gender, and Class in the Persistence of the Mariel Stigma Twenty Years After the Exodus from Cuba

Gastón A. Fernández

Los Marielitos of 1980: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality

Silvia Pedraza

Foreign Investment in Cuba: An Inventory

Jorge F. Pérez-López

The Current Situation of Foreign Investment in Cuba

Paolo Spadoni

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: The Status of Current Foreign Investors in a Post-Transition Cuba

Matias F. Travieso-Diaz and Armando A. Musa

Cuba: Necesidad de Cambiar la Receta o las Reformas Requeridas para Reducir el Empobrecimiento

Rolando H. Castañeda

Franco's Spain and Castro's Cuba: Parallels and Contrasts

Alfred G. Cuzán

Who's On First?: The Struggle for Succession in Fidel Castro's Cuba

Daniel P. Erikson

Between Ideology and Pragmatism: The Revolution and the Private Sector
before the Special Period, 1959-1990

Ted Henken

Education and Labor Skills in Socialist Cuba

Roberto Orro Fernández

Value Orientations and Opinions of Recently Arrived Cubans in Miami: Methodology and Selected Results

Andy S. Gomez and Eugenio M. Rothe

The Sugarcane UBPCS Ten Years Later

José Alvarez

Agricultural Production Cooperatives in Cuba: Toward Sustainability

Frederick S. Royce

Cuban Agriculture: To Be or Not to be Organic?

William E. Kost

Castro's Cuba: Ideological Themes in Rhetoric

David Penny

Cuba's Path to a Market Economy: Washington Consensus, Doi Moi, or Reforma á la Cubana?

Chantal Agarwal

Aiding a Cuba in Transition: Humanitarian Challenges and Practical Considerations on Both Sides of the Florida Straits

Eric Driggs

The Social and Human Services Sectors as Independent Institutions

Guarioné M. Díaz

The Role of Volunteerism in Capacity Building for Cuban Non-Governmental Organizations

Julieta N. Valls and Dave Schmeling

NGOs Functioning as Social Service Providers: The Elderly Problem in Cuba

Pamela Elfenbein

Role and Importance of the Agricultural Processing Sector in the Cuba of the Future

José Ricardo

La Transición, la Industria Azucarera Cubana, y el Mundo del Azúcar

Juan Tomás Sánchez

Cuba: U.S. Agribusiness Export Prospects Under Three Scenarios

James E. Ross

Winners and Losers: The Effect of Cuba's Political-Based Trading Policies

Matthew Q. McPherson and William N. Trumbull

Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba 2004 Report to the President —Assessment of Chapter Six: "Addressing Environmental Degradation"

Eudel Cepero, Larry Daley, Sergio Díaz-Briquets, Argelio Maldonado, and Frank Resillez

Land Management: Modeling Deforestation and Desertification in Oriente Province, Cuba

Larry Daley

El Uso del Tiempo en el Gobierno de Transición

Jorge A. Sanguinetty

A Preliminary Approach to a Social Market Economy for Post-Castro Cuba

Antonio Jorge

Appendix A: About the Authors

Appendix B: Acknowledgements


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