La revolución cubana y la economía, 1959-2012. Los ciclos de política y el ciclo azucarero

This article argues that the main problem of the Cuban economy before the extinction of the URSS has been the end of two centuries of specialization in the sugar production, since the emergence of a new partner, Venezuela, did not provide an alternative market. The paper shows that policies have not...

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Bibliographic Details
Author: Santamaría García, Antonio
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2014
Country:España
Institution:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repository:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/108570
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/108570
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Cuba
Revolucion Cubana
Economia Cubana
Azúcar
Historia Economica
Economia
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Summary:This article argues that the main problem of the Cuban economy before the extinction of the URSS has been the end of two centuries of specialization in the sugar production, since the emergence of a new partner, Venezuela, did not provide an alternative market. The paper shows that policies have not addressed radically the situation, and analyzes the recent reforms as a program designed to alleviate them, but without changes in the socio-economic and political system