Transforming the Cuban Economic Model

Editors: Mauricio A. Font and Mario González-Corzo

In this edited volume, a group of renowned Cuba-based and international scholars explore Cuba’s economic transformations since 2008 and present fresh and timely perspectives on key topics such as: economic reforms and development, the changing patterns of Cuba’s merchandise trade and its prospects under various possible international scenarios, challenges and opportunities confronting micro-entrepreneurs and self-employed workers in Cuba, cooperatives and their evolving role in the Cuban economy, existing and proposed efforts to mobilize micro-credits and micro-finance as sustainable vehicles to support the expansion of non-State economic actors like cooperatives, microenterprises, and self-employed workers, and recent developments in the structure, composition, management, and functions of the Central State Budget.

Editor: Mario González-Corzo

This book presents new perspectives on Cuba’s emerging agricultural model after of
“Lineamientos de la Política Económica y Social del Partido y la Revolucion” (“Lineamientos” or “Guidelines”) in 2011. Written by Armando Nova González, Professor at the Center for the Study of the Cuban Economy at the University of Havana, and an internationally-recognized expert on Cuban agriculture, it effectively delineates the principal characteristics of Cuba’s emerging agricultural model, its principal challenges, and its future prospects.