Cuba: From Revolution to DevelopmentPinter, 1998 - 174 pages Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the subsequent demise of CMEA (Council for Mutual Economic Advancement), the international communist trading bloc, observers have been predicting that Cuba will go the same way as the rest of the Warsaw Pact: 'market forces' replacing planning directives, and with political representation through political parties competing periodically for the national vote. Cuba has defied the pundits. And, in the opinion of the author, will not succumb to the liberalizing pressures of the globalized world economy. Cuba faces problems, and in this book the scale of these pressures is assessed in the context of Cuban development since the revolution in 1959. The alternative policy strategies put forward in the traditional literature are theoretically addressed, with the ideological implications of each programme emphasized. Cuba does face a new, hostile international economic environment, and choices have to be made. But these are political choices, rather than economic ones. The possible economic options open to Cuba are discussed, in light of the political constraints and parameters within which market forces must operate. 'Examining intelligently the different options available to Havana's policy-makers, Ken Cole's mastery of economic theory allows him to explain in accessible language Cuba's economic decline and ensuing surprising recovery in the 1990s....required reading for students and teachers of Cuban affairs, as well as newsmen, policy-makers and investors who need to learn the why and how behind Cuba's promising economic renewal.' |
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... cent of salary ( see Eckstein 1994 : 141 ) . Health care and unemployment provision became universal , with unemployment benefit up to 70 per cent of salary ( see Mesa - Lago 1981a : 169-70 ) . The massive literacy campaign of 1961 ...
... cent of landowners held 20 per cent of the land , and 8 per cent controlled 70 per cent ; over 40 per cent of the rural population were illiterate ; fewer than 10 per cent of rural homes had electricity , and only 3 per cent running ...
... cent while free market prices , reflecting supply and demand , tended to fall . For instance , compared to the first half of 1995 , sales in farmers ' markets increased by 27 per cent while prices fell by 35 per cent . Domestic growth ...
Table des matières
The Cuban predicament | 1 |
The revolutionary imperative | 21 |
The intellectual parameters of Cuban development | 56 |
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