Cuba in 1992 is in the worst crisis since the revolution. According to the author, the proximate cause for the country's present predicament is not hard to identify: Cuba has a small and heavily trade-dependent economy. So he examines its economic and political crisis, paying special attention...

After reviewing recent independent estimates of Cuban industrial growth, the paper discusses the nature of Cuban prices and their possible impact on measurements of economic development. Next, using 1981 Cuban net value added branch weights and constant 1981 Cuban wholesale prices, it develops...

La economia cubana inicio un periodo de rapido crecimiento a principios de los anos setenta, y las autoridades estaban obviamente ansiosas por lograr que algunos aspectos de este exito economico se apreciaran y difundieran en el exterior. Gran parte de los estudios especializados se caracteriza...