Cuba in Transition: Volume 18

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Table of Contents

Preface

Conference Program

Table of Contents

Economic Challenges Facing the Cuban Authorities

Joaquín P. Pujol

Cuba Ante un Futuro Incierto

Oscar Espinosa Chepe

Cuba and the U.S. National Interest: Developing an American Strategy for the Cuban Transition

Gary H. Maybarduk

Pesos, Poverty, and Perversions: What’s Wrong With Cuba’s Money and How To Fix It

Ed Canler

Cómo y Cuándo Eliminar la Doble Moneda en Cuba

Antonio E. Morales-Pita

The Cuban Dual Monetary System and Challenges Ahead

Roberto Orro

A Primer on Currency Unification and Exchange Rate Policy in Cuba: Lessons from Exchange Rate Unification in Transition Economies

Gabriel Di Bella and Andy Wolfe

Resolution of Outstanding Property Claims Between Cuba and the United States

Michael J. Kelly and Richard C. Witmer

Resolution of Outstanding Property Claims Between Cuba and the United States: Comment

Alnunfo R. Carrandi

The Resolution of Outstanding Property Claims Between the U.S. and Cuba and the Conclusions of the CAFC II Report: Comment

Gary H. Maybarduk

Creighton University Report on the Resolution of Cuban Claims: Comment

Juan Tomás Sánchez

Desde Cuba con Yoani Sánchez: Animando al Periodismo Ciudadano Digital y Desafiando a la Violencia Verbal

Ted Henken

The Role of Blogs in Breaking the Media’s Embargo and Telling the Truth about Cuba: Comment

Henry Luis Gómez

Cuba and the Development of Odious Debt Doctrine

Larry Catá Backer

A Brief Comparative History of Gross Domestic Production in “Revolutionary” Cuba

Ernesto Hernández-Catá

International Tourism in Cuba: An Update

María Dolores Espino

The Free Enterprise In Function Of Historic And Patrimonial Preservation:
The Project “Paradores de Cuba”

Alberto S. Bustamante, Jr.

China and Cuba—Exports, Imports and Tourism: Comment

Rafael Romeu

Cuba’s International Trade: Becoming More Invisible

Jorge F. Pérez-López

Remittances to Cuba: An Update

Sergio Díaz-Briquets

Cuba: Access to Capital Markets, External Debt Burden, and Possible Avenues for Debt Relief

Lorenzo L. Pérez

Revolution and Continuity in the History of Education in Cuba

Graciella Cruz-Taura

The Role of Education in Cuba’s Future

Andy S. Gomez

Cuban Americans and Foreign Direct Investments in Post-Castro Cuba: “An Ace in the Hole”

José Azel

Cuban Americans and Foreign Direct Investments in Post-Castro Cuba: Comment

Maria Werlau

The Dirty Side of Moa Nickel: A Critical View from Space

Eudel Cepero

La Constitución Cubana: Su Aplicación y el Control de la Constitucionalidad de las Leyes en Cuba

Yulexy Solís

Comentarios Acerca del Ejercicio de la Abogacía y del Abogado en Cuba

Joan Martínez-Evora

Cuba: Regimen de Inversión Extranjera y Sistema Económico

Pablo A. De Cuba

Cuba y Estados Unidos: El Potencial de una Integración Económica Mutuamente Beneficiosa

Rolando H. Castañeda

Transition and Emigration: Political Generations in Cuba

Silvia Pedraza

An Agricultural Transition Policy for Cuba: A Message for Raúl

Antonio Gayoso

Dollar Diplomacy: Fallacies and Consequences of Foreign Investment in Cuba, 1909-1924

Joan Carreras Timoneda

De la Iglesia a la Plaza: Las Damas de Blanco y la Lucha por el Espacio Público en La Habana

Laura García Freyre

Survey of Cuban Remittance Forwarding Agencies in the United States: Preliminary Findings

Mario A. González-Corzo and Scott Larson

Cuba’s Economic Culture and the Reform Process

G.B. Hagelberg and José Alvarez

Is There Political Will Towards Democratization in Cuba?

Roger R. Betancourt and Jorge A. Sanguinetty

Design for Six Sigma in the Charting of a Cuban Transition

Jorge Luis Romeu

Papel del Micropréstamo en la Economía Cubana Hoy y en el Futuro

Karina Gálvez

Cuentapropismo o Cuentapriapismo: Retos y Consideraciones Sobre Género, Auto-Empleo y Privatización

Ileana Fuentes

Lecciones para Cuba Sobre las Remesas

Ricardo A. Puerta

The Power Sector in Cuba

Juan A. B. Belt

Cuba’s Power Sector: 1998–2008

Manuel Cereijo

Cuba’s Water and Wastewater Sector: Environmental Literature, Institutional and Economic Issues and Future Work

Helena M. Solo-Gabriele and Armando I. Perez

Raúl Castro and Cuba’s Global Diplomacy

Daniel P. Erikson and Paul Wander

Exceptionalism and Beyond: Civil-Military Relations in Cuba, 1986–2008

Eusebio Mujal-León and Lorena Buzón

Appendix A: About the Authors

Appendix B: Acknowledgements

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