Policy Options for Cuba’s Development: Preparing for the Post-Embargo Era

Below are hyperlinks to presentations at a conference in Havana in April 25-26 on policy possibilities for the Cuban economy and potential insights from the experiences of other countries including Sweden, Brazil, Vietnam and China. The original links are at the web site of NUPI, the Norsk Utenrikspolitisk Institutt, here: Policy Options for Cuba.

Policy Options for Cuba’s Development: Preparing for the Post-Embargo Era

This project aims at supporting the work of Cuban economists and social scientists – those living in Cuba and abroad – who have argued for substantial economic reform and new socio-development strategies.

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Fulvio Castellacci¹
Morten Skumsrud Andersen²
Vegard Bye^3
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Claes Brundenius, Professor, Lund University

The final conference of phase 2 of this project took place in Havana on April 25th and 26th 2013. All presentations from this conference can be downloaded below.

Presentations:

Conference programme⁵

1. Welcome Remarks (eng) – Castellacci⁶

2. The updating of the Cuban Economic Model (spa) – Pérez Villanueva⁷

3. Economic Development in Cuba (eng) – Torres Pérez⁸

4. Reforms in Cuba in light of experiences from China and Vietnam (spa) – De Miranda Parrondo⁹

5. Entrepreneurship, Innovation and SMEs: Can the Cuban Reform Process Learn from Vietnam? (eng) – Brundenius¹⁰

6. Innovation and Entrepreneurship: The Case of University Start Up Companies in China (eng) – Li¹¹

7. Innovation, Absorptive Capacity and Growth Heterogeneity: Cuba in a Latin American Perspective (1970–2010) (eng) – Castellacci and Natera¹²

8. Institutions and innovation in the process of economic change (eng) – Alonso¹³

9. Challenges for an Efficient Cuban Economy in Times of Increasing Heterogeneity and Uncertainties (eng) – Fernández Estrada¹⁴

10. Towards a new taxation in Cuba (spa) – Pons Pérez¹⁵

11. The key to inclusive economic groth in Cuba (spa) – Sagebien¹⁶

12. The politics of Science, Technology and Innovation in Cuba (spa) – Núñez Jover¹⁷

13. Main problems for innovation in Cuban enterprises¹⁸

14. Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Challenges for Local Development in the university centers of Santiago de Cuba (eng) – Sayous and Soler¹⁹

15. Structural change in Brazil – A Latin American Experience (spa) – Vasconcelos²⁰

16. The Swedish Innovation System: The Role of Government and its Support to SMEs (eng) – Schwaag Serger²¹

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