This Working Paper is a first attempt at mapping and evaluating in Latin America the contribution of local cognitive institutions to the region’s economic reforms. Policy makers have only limited knowledge of the cognitive assets under study here, i.e., public and private institutions with a...

The end of Cuban exceptionalism has been much announced since 1989, but a decade and a half later state socialism on the island is still enduring. Transition studies have been criticized for focusing on success stories. Exploring the deviant case of Cuba's "non-transition" from a comparative...