Cuba in Transition: Volume 8

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Table of Contents

• Title Page

• Preface

• Table of Contents

• The Cuban Economy in 1997-98: Performance and Policies Carmelo Mesa-Lago
  

• 1997: Resumen Económico de un Año Manuel Sánchez Herrero y Arnaldo Ramos Lauzurique
  

• Economic Reform in Latin America and the Caribbean and Possible Implications for Cuba Claudio Loser
  
  • Comments by Jorge A. Sanguinetty
    

• Cuba and Latin America: The Political Dimension Mauricio A. Font
  
  • Comments by Alfred G. Cuzán
    

• Back to the Future: Cuban Tourism In the Year 2007 Nicolás Crespo
  

• Cuba's Tourism Industry: Sol Meliá as a Case Study Félix Blanco Godínez
  

• Promoting Place Through Architectural Heritage: Restoration and Preservation of Twentieth Century Architectural Design in Miramar, Habana, Cuba Artimus Keiffer and Sarah K. Wagner
  

• Cuban Immigration: Challenges and Opportunities Matías F. Travieso-Díaz
  

• Promoting and Financing the Development of an Environmental Infrastructure in a Post-Castro Cuba Aldo M. Leiva
  

• Comments on "Cuba's New Entrepreneurs" by José M. Ruisánchez
  

• Second Economy, Second Society, and Political Control in Cuba: Perspectives from Network and Institutional Economics Mario A. Rivera
  

• Apreciación y Analisis de los Aciertos y los Mitos del Estudio de la CEPAL Rolando Castañeda
  

• ECLAC's Report on the Cuban Economy in the 1990s Carmelo Mesa-Lago
  

• A Project for Faculty Development in a Transitional Cuba Jorge Luis Romeu
  

• Rainfall in Little Havana Diego R. Roqué
  
  • Comments by Jorge Luis Romeu
    

• Socialism and Environmental Disruption: Implications for Cuba Sergio Díaz-Briquets and Jorge Pérez-López
  

• Investment and International Cooperation in Cuba's Energy Sector Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado
  

• Mexico-Cuba Commercial Relations in the 1990s Demetria Tsoutouras and Julia Sagebien
  

• Update on Foreign Investment in Cuba 1997-98 and Focus on the Energy Sector Maria C. Werlau
  

• The Impact of the U.S. Embargo on Health and Nutrition in Cuba Peter G. Bourne
  
  • Comments by Sergio Díaz-Briquets
    

• The Effects of the U.S. Embargo on Health and Nutrition in Cuba: A Critical Analysis María C. Werlau
  

• The United States Embargo Against Cuba: Legal Aspects of the Restrictions on Sales of Pharmaceutical Products, as Set Forth in the Cuban Democracy Act of 1992 Wallie Mason and Stephen J. Kimmerling
  

• Renaisssance and Decay: A Comparison of Socioeconomic Indicators in Pre-Castro and Current-Day Cuba Kirby Smith and Hugo Llorens
  

• Cuba on the Eve of the Socialist Transition: A Reassessment of the Backwardness-Stagnation Thesis Eric N. Baklanoff
  

• The Strengths and Weaknesses of Factor Analysis in Predicting Cuban GDP Nicolás Sánchez and Miles Cahill
  
  • Comments by Roger R. Betancourt
    

• Consumer Prices, Money Supply and Liberalization in Post-Communist Economies Ernesto Hernández-Catá
  

• La Crisis Financiera en México: Lecciones para Cuba Roberto Orro Fernández
  

• Economic Development in the Tropics: Fiction or Possibility Roger R. Betancourt and Carlos Seiglie
  

• Culture of Opposition in Cuba Benigno E. Aguirre
  

• Political Culture and Democracy in Cuba: Comparative Reflections Mauricio Solaún
  

• Lecciones de la Paz en Centroamerica: Un Intento de Aplicación a Cuba Nelso Amaro
  

• Cuban Public Opinion Dynamics (1997-1998) and the Potential for Building a Civil Society Ernesto Betancourt
  

• The Cuban Economic Crisis of the 1990s and the External Sector Jorge F. Pérez-López
  

• The Cuban Cigar Industry as the Transition Approaches Joseph M. Perry, Louis A. Woods, Stephen L. Shapiro, and Jeffrey W. Steagall
  
  • Comments by José Alvarez
    

• Experiencias Agroclimatológicas de República Dominicana y el Caribe Adaptables a Cuba Hipólito Mejía Domínguez
  
  • Comentarios de Raúl Fernández García
    

• El Sector Agropecuario Cubano Bajo el Socialismo de Estado Manuel Sánchez Herrero y Arnaldo Ramos Lauzurique
  

• Investment, Human Capital, and Technological Change: Evidence from Cuba and its Implications for Growth Models Manuel E. Madrid-Aris
  

• The Impact of Pope John Paul II's Visit to Cuba Silvia Pedraza
  

• Impressions on the Visit of Pope John Paul II to Cuba Maria C. Werlau
  

• Lo Que Fue y No Fue: La Visita del Papa A Cuba José M. Hernández
  

• Cuba y Polonia: Semejanzas, Diferencias Raúl Fernández García
  

• Comentarios de Carlos N. Quijano
  

• The Pension System of Cuba: The Current Situation and Implications of International Pension Reform Experiences for Addressing Cuba's Problems Lorenzo L. Pérez
  
  • Comments by Carmelo Mesa-Lago
    

• Free from What? Where To? And the Role of the Cuban-Americans Armando Ribas
  

• Appendix A: Authors and Discussants
  

• Appendix B: Acknowledgements
  

• ASCE Membership and Contact Information
  

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