Cuba in Transition: Volume 15

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Table of Contents

Preface

Conference Program

The Cuban Economy in 2004-2005

Carmelo Mesa-Lago

The Cuban Economy in 2005

Jorge A. Sanguinetty

Institutions, Markets, and Economic Performance: Implications for Cuba

Roger R. Betancourt

Malformaciones Estructurales de la Economía Cubana

Manuel García Díaz

Las Ruinas Invisibles de una Sociedad: Destrucción y Evolución del Capital Social en Cuba

Jorge A. Sanguinetty

Deconstructing "Constructive Engagement": Canada's Economic Relations with Cuba, 1993-2003

Eric N. Baklanoff and LaShondra Jones

An Assessment of ECLAC's "Política Social y Reformas Estructurales: Cuba a Principios del Siglo XXI"

Carmelo Mesa-Lago and Jorge Pérez-López

La Economía Cubana en Cifras: ¿Una Economía Real o Virtual?

Manuel García Díaz

Cuba's Energy Challenge: A Second Look

Jorge R. Piñón Cervera

Commentary on "Cuba's Energy Challenge: A Second Look" by Piñón Cervera

Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado

La Globalización en la Industria Cañera (Sucro-alcoholera) y el Brasil: El Interés para Cuba

Juan Tomás Sánchez

Real Property Restitution: Risks for Claimants and Investors

Tania C. Mastrapa

Land Title Registration In Cuba: Past, Present, and Future

José Manuel Pallí

Taxation of Cuban Confiscated Assets After Property Claims Settlements:
Issues for Taxpayers and the U.S. Government

Timothy Ashby and Tania Mastrapa

Housing Cooperatives: Possible Roles in Havana's Residential Sector

Mario A. González Corzo

The Agricultural Export Facilitation Act of 2005: Its Rationale and Relevance for U.S.-Cuba Trade

Terry L. Maris

General Equilibrium Analysis of Florida Agricultural Exports to Cuba

Michael O'Connell

The Spanish Caribbean and its Influence on a Transition in Cuba

Jorge Luis Romeu

Los Españoles en Cuba: Conflictos y Estereotipos

Dominga González Suárez

The Riverine Gallery Forests: The Chill Abode of the Jigüe

Larry Daley

Los Efectos Perversos de las Sanciones de los Estados Unidos para una Transición Cubana

Rolando H. Castañeda

U.S.-Cuba Policy: Strengthening Civil Society, Establishing Democracy

Felipe Eduardo Sixto

U.S. Cuba Policy: Will We Get It Right This Time?

Alberto Luzárraga

La Actual Política Exterior de EUA Respecto a Cuba

René Monserrat

El Valioso y Elusivo Componente Cultural en el Apoyo a la Sociedad Civil

Soren Triff

Ir o No Ir, Esa No es la Cuestión

Eudel Cepero

Which Transition? A Contrarian Look at Post-Castro Cuba

Ed Canler

The Report of the Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba: Big Book--Good Advice?

Juan Tomás Sánchez

Key Lessons Learned from the Transition to a Market Economy in Asia, Europe, and Latin America Over the Last 15 Years: Application to Cuba

Rolando H. Castañeda

Routes Out of Socialism as Path-Dependent Process: Central Europe's Experiences and Lessons for Cuba

Ryszard Zukowski

Courts of Special Jurisdiction in a Post-Transition Cuba

Matias F. Travieso-Diaz and Armando A. Musa

Survival Strategies and Economic Illegalities in Cuba

Archibald Ritter

Entrepreneurship, Informality, and the Second Economy:
Cuba's Underground Economy in Comparative Perspective

Ted Henken

Fidel Castro, Inc.: A Global Conglomerate

Maria C. Werlau

Remittances to Cuba: A Survey of Methods and Estimates

Jorge Pérez-López and Sergio Díaz-Briquets

Cuba, China, Venezuela: New Developments

Daniel Erikson

Assimilation or Transnationalism? Conceptual Models of the Immigrant Experience in America

Silvia Pedraza

Demystifying a Bilateral Relationship: Rise and Fall of the Mexican-Cuban Political Understanding

Enrique Romero

La Mulata: Cuba's National Symbol

Tamara Kneese

Cuba's "New" Peso Food Chain: Linkages and Implications for U.S. Exporters

James E. Ross and María Antonia Fernández Mayo

Historical Overview of Cuba's Costs of Sugar Production: Implications for the Future

G.B. Hagelberg and José Alvarez

Algunos de los Beneficios de la Alianza Cubano-Venezolana Para El Régimen Castrista

Hernán Yanes

When Oil Lubricates Fascism: The Venezuelan-Cuban Connection

Gustavo Coronel

The Geopolitics of Oil

Beatrice E. Rangel

Appendix A: About the Authors

Appendix B: Acknowledgements

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