
Cuban Economic and Social Development
Policy Reforms and Challenges in the 21st Century
Harvard University, The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (Publisher)
Published on 26. March 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
338 pages
978-0-674-06243-6 (ISBN)
Description
The Cuban economy has been transformed over the course of the last decade, and these changes are now likely to accelerate. In this edited volume, prominent Cuban economists and sociologists present a clear analysis of Cuba's economic and social circumstances and suggest steps for Cuba to reactivate economic growth and improve the welfare of its citizens. These authors focus first on trade, capital inflows, exchange rates, monetary and fiscal policy, and the agricultural sector. In a second section, a multidisciplinary team of sociologists and an economist map how reforms in economic and social policies have produced declines in the social standing of some specific groups and economic mobility for others.
A joint collaboration between scholars at Harvard University and in Cuba, this book includes the same editors and many of the same authors of The Cuban Economy at the Start of the Twenty-First Century (edited by Jorge I. Dominguez, Omar Everleny Perez Villanueva, and Lorena G. Barberia), which is also part of the David Rockefeller Center series.
A joint collaboration between scholars at Harvard University and in Cuba, this book includes the same editors and many of the same authors of The Cuban Economy at the Start of the Twenty-First Century (edited by Jorge I. Dominguez, Omar Everleny Perez Villanueva, and Lorena G. Barberia), which is also part of the David Rockefeller Center series.
Reviews / Votes
This rich compilation is essential reading for all looking to understand Cuba's growth record as well as its economic sustainability in a globalized economic terrain. -- Patrice M. Franko * Choice *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United States
Illustrations
25 black and white illustrations, 45 tables
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-674-06243-6 (9780674062436)
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Persons
Jorge I. Dominguez is Antonio Medero Professor of Mexican and Latin American Politics and Economics at Harvard University. Omar Everleny Perez Villanueva is Professor in the Department of Economics and a Researcher at the Center for the Study of the Cuban Economy at the University of Havana. Mayra Espina Prieto is Professor and Researcher at Centro de Investigaciones Psicologicas y Sociologicas (CIPS), Havana, Cuba. Lorena Barberia is Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Sao Paulo. Dwight H. Perkins is Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus, at Harvard University. Dani Rodrik is Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.