Author Archives: Arch Ritter

Agriculture

Marianela Martín y Haydée León, “Experimentarán nueva fórmula para el acopio y comercialización de productos agrícolas”, Juventud Rebelde, 08 de junio de 2009

Dora Pérez, Marianela Martín, Odalis Riquenes, Luis Raúl Vázquez y Roberto Díaz, “La necesidad no tiene ciclo corto” Juventud Rebelde, 22 de marzo de 2009,

G.B. Hagelberg and José Alvarez, “CUBA’S DYSFUNCTIONAL AGRICULTURE: THE CHALLENGE FACING THE GOVERNMENT”, Cuba in Transition, ASCE 2007

Armando Nova González, La necesidad de un modelo agrícola eficiente, (www.nodo50.org/cubasigloXXI/economia/novag2_310808) 2008,

G.B. Hagelberg and José Alvarez, COMMAND AND COUNTERMAND: CUBA’S SUGAR INDUSTRY UNDER FIDEL CASTRO, Cuba in transition, ASCE, 2006

G.B. Hagelberg and José Alvarez, “HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF CUBA’S COSTS OF SUGAR PRODUCTION: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE”, Cuba in Transition, ASCE 2005

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Employment, Labour, Distributional and Equity Issues

James K. Galbraith, Laura Spagnolo and Daniel Munevar, “Pay Inequality in Cuba: the Special Period and After,” ECINEQ WP 2006 – 52, The University of Texas Inequality Project, August 2006

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Energy, Mines and Resources

Oscar Espinosa Chepe, “Desastre anunciado: Al igual que otros programas propagandísticos del castrismo, la llamada ‘revolución energética’ ha sido un chasco”, Cubaencuentro, 1 de Julio de 2009

Mario Alberto Arrastía Avila, Increasing Renewable Energy, Juventud Rebelde, June 13, 2009

Juan Tomás Sánchez, Cuba y el Etanol: Proyeciones para una Economía Privada, Cuba in Transition, ASCE 2007

Jorge Hernández Fonseca, El Programa Brasileño de Etanol: Lecciones para Cuba, Cuba in Transition, ASCE 2007

Juan A. B. Belt and Luis Velazque, “CUBA: REFORMING THE POWER, ELECOMMUNICATIONS AND WATER SECTORS DURING A TRANSITION”, Cuba in Transition, ASCE 2007

Jorge R. Piñón Cervera1, CUBA’S ENERGY CHALLENGE: A SECOND LOOK, Cuba in Transition, ASCE 2005

Jorge R. Piñón, CUBA’S ENERGY CHALLENGE: Fueling the Engine of Future Economic Growth, Institute for Cuban & Cuban-American Studies Occasional Paper Series. University of Miami, March 2004

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Entrepreneurship, Small Enterprise and the “Informal Economy”

Katherine Hirschfeld,”SOCIOLISMO AND THE UNDERGROUND CLINIC: THE INFORMAL ECONOMY AND HEALTH SERVICES IN CUBA”, Cuba in Transition, ASCE 2006

Ted Henken, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, INFORMALITY, AND THE SECOND ECONOMY: CUBA’S UNDERGROUND ECONOMY IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE, Cuba in Transition, ASCE 2005

Ted Henken, SANTIAGO VS. HAVANA: CUBA’S UNDERGROUND ECONOMY IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE, Cuba in Transition, ASCE 2003

Archibald R. M. Ritter, : The Tax Regime for Microenterprise in Cuba,” C E P A L Review 7 1, August 2000

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Health and the Medical System

Richard S Cooper, Joan F Kennelly, and Pedro Ordunez-Garcia, “Health in Cuba”, International Journal of Epidemiology, 2006; 35:817–824

Katherine Hirschfeld,”SOCIOLISMO AND THE UNDERGROUND CLINIC: THE INFORMAL ECONOMY AND HEALTH SERVICES IN CUBA”, Cuba in Transition, ASCE 2006

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Illegalities

Archibald Ritter, “Economic Illegalities and the Underground Economy in Cuba”, FOCAL Background Briefing on Cuba, RFC-06-01

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International

Cuba-Venezuela Relations

Rolando Castaneda, LA AYUDA ECONÓMICA DE VENEZUELA A CUBA: SITUACIÓN Y PERSPECTIVAS. ¿ES SOSTENIBLE? – Misceláneas de Cuba (18 August 2009)


Cuba-Canada Relations

Rachel Pulfer, “Castro’s Favourite Capitalist” (Will Sherritt International come to regret dealing with Communist Cuba? CEO Ian Delaney doesn’t think so) The Walrus, Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Lana Wylie, Reassessing Canada’s Relationship with Cubain an Era of Change, Canadian International Council, October 2009.

Cristina Warren, Retooling Canada’s Cuba policy for the post-Castro era, Vanguard, Canada.s Premier Defense and Security Magazine, May 2008 A

No cigar on Cuban relations, John M. Kirk and Peter Mckenna. The Globe and Mail. Montreal, Monday, June 4, 2001

Canadian Centre for Foreign Policy Development, Report from the Round Table on Canada Cuba Relations (CCFPD), Ottawa, Canada, January 18, 2000

YVON GRENIER, Our Dictatorship: Canada’s Trilateral Relations with Castro’s Cuba, Vanishing Borders: Edited by Maureen Appel Molot and Fen Osler Hampson. Oxford Univesity Press, 2000.


Cuba- China Relations

Yinghong Cheng, Beijing and Havana: Political Fraternity and Economic Patronage, The Jamestown Foundation, China Brief Volume: 9 Issue: 9, April 30, 2009

Daniel Erikson, CUBA, CHINA, VENEZUELA: NEW DEVELOPMENTS, Cuba in Transition, ASCE, 2005


Cuba-European Union Relations

Council of the European Union, Council conclusions on Evaluation of the EU Common Position on Cuba, 2951st External Relations Council, Luxembourg, 15 Juin 2009

Joaquín Roy, The Attitude of the European Union and Spain Towards Cuba: An Assessment A Year After Castro’s Illness, WP 38/2007, Real Instituto Elcano, Madrid, 4/9/2007

Joaquín Roy, From Stubbornness and Mutual Irrelevance to Stillness and Vigil on Castro’s Crisis: The Current State of European Union-Spain-Cuba Relations, WP 16/2006, Real Instituto Elcano, Madrid, 31/08/2006

Christian Freres, An Overview of the Linkages Between Spain’s Regions and Cuba, Background Briefings (RFC-05-02), FOCAL, Canada, 2005

Joaquín Roy, The European Union Perception of Cuba: From Frustration to Irritation, Background Briefings (RFC-03-2) FOCAL Canada, September 2003

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Macroeconomy and Monetary

Marc Frank, “Cuba’s economy to falter in 2009 -Cuban experts”, Reuters, HAVANA, May 18, 2009

Pavel Vidal Alejandro, “Los salarios, los precios y la dualidad monetaria”, Espacio Laical, Febrero de 2008

Archibald R. M. Ritter, “The dual currency bifurcation of Cuba’s economy in the 1990s: causes, consequences and cures”, CEPAL Review Nº 57, December 1995

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Social Security

Carmelo Mesa-Lago, “El envejecimiento de la población y la Seguridad Social en Cuba: UNA CARGA CRECIENTE”, Espacio Laical, Suplemento Digital, No. 42, Septiembre 2008. No. 42

Carmelo Mesa-Lago, Social and economic problems in Cuba during the crisis and subsequent recovery, CEPAL Review, Nº 86, August 2005

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Tourism

María Dolores Espino, International Tourism, An Up-Date, Cuba in Transition • ASCE 2008

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