Cuban Development and the Sugar Economy: The Effects on Cuban Development of Changing International Economic Relations
Joshua Himes
[1] Editor's Note: This paper was the winner of ASCE's undergraduate award for research on the Cuban economy. It was completed under the direction of Professor Reiner, of the Geography Department.
[2] Jorge Pérez-López, The Economics of Cuban Sugar (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991), p. xiii.
[3] Ibid., pg. 3.
[4] Ibid., pg. 14.
[5] Nicolás Rivero, "The Cuban Enigma," The Miami Herald, Feb/March 1992, p. 35.
[6] Ibid., p. 35.
[7] Jorge Pérez-López, "Bringing the Cuban Economy into Focus," Latin American Research Review, vol. 26, No. 3, 1991, p. 26.
[8] Ibid., p. 27.
[9] Ibid., p. 27.
[10] Most of the statistical information in this section was taken from information in The Economist's Intelligence Unit's Cuba Country Reports, various dates and pages from 1989 to 1992.
[11] Jill Hamburg, "Cuban Housing Policy," in Halebsky and Kirk, Transformation and Struggle (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1990), p. 243-244.
[12] The Economist Intelligence Unit, EIU Country Report, London, EIU, no.1, 1991, p. 18.
[13] The Economist Intelligence Unit, EIU Country Report, no. 1, 1992, p. 17.
[14] The Economist Intelligence Unit, EIU Country Report, no. 2, 1992, p. 15.
[15] Max Azicri, Cuba (London: Pinter Publishers, 1988), p. 62.
[16] Nicolás Rivero, "Thoughts on the Cuban Sugar Industry," in George P. Montalván (ed.), Cuba In Transition: Papers and Proceedings of the Second Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (Miami: Florida International University, 1992), p. 128.
[17] A.R.M. Ritter, "Economic Reorientation," in Halebsky and Kirk, Cuba In Transition, (Boulder: Westview Press, 1992), p. 134