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Author : Agnes Martha Wierzbicki
Release : 2005
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Book Synopsis The Cuban Black Market by : Agnes Martha Wierzbicki
Download or read book The Cuban Black Market written by Agnes Martha Wierzbicki. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher J. Patton (Jr.)
Release : 2017
Genre : Black market
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Book Synopsis Revolution Y by : Christopher J. Patton (Jr.)
Download or read book Revolution Y written by Christopher J. Patton (Jr.). This book was released on 2017. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this paper I examine observed similarities between the emergence and persistence of a black market economy and the creation and institutionalization of alternative news sources within Cuba, and contend that the existence of these institutions represents an inherent challenge to the legitimacy of the Castro regime. By examining these potential parallels and their implications for Cuban society, this paper seeks to provide an overview of a possible correlation between declining levels of trust in state-run media and increasing dissatisfaction with the existing political regime."--Abstract.
Author : Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy. Meeting
Release : 1999
Genre : Cuba
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Book Synopsis Cuba in Transition by : Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy. Meeting
Download or read book Cuba in Transition written by Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy. Meeting. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Julia Cooke
Release : 2014-04-01
Genre : Travel
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Book Synopsis The Other Side of Paradise by : Julia Cooke
Download or read book The Other Side of Paradise written by Julia Cooke. This book was released on 2014-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Change looms in Havana, Cuba's capital, a city electric with uncertainty yet cloaked in cliché, 90 miles from U.S. shores and off-limits to most Americans. Journalist Julia Cooke, who lived there at intervals over a period of five years, discovered a dynamic scene: baby-faced anarchists with Mohawks gelled with laundry soap, whiskey-drinking children of the elite, Santería trainees, pregnant prostitutes, university graduates planning to leave for the first country that will give them a visa. This last generation of Cubans raised under Fidel Castro animate life in a waning era of political stagnation as the rest of the world beckons: waiting out storms at rummy hurricane parties and attending raucous drag cabarets, planning ascendant music careers and black-market business ventures, trying to reconcile the undefined future with the urgent today. Eye-opening and politically prescient, The Other Side of Paradise offers a deep new understanding of a place that has so confounded and intrigued us.
Author : Jorge Perez-Lopez
Release : 2018-02-06
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis Cuba's Second Economy by : Jorge Perez-Lopez
Download or read book Cuba's Second Economy written by Jorge Perez-Lopez. This book was released on 2018-02-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Without doubt, Cuba is facing its most serious economic challenge in nearly thirty-five years of revolutionary rule. There is consensus that as the official, centrally planned economy has faltered, ordinary citizens eke out a living only by engaging in under-the-table, unrecorded, and mostly illegal activities. In fact, this "second economy" is growing by leaps and bounds. This volume sketches the contours of the very complex phenomenon of the second economy of socialist Cuba, and discusses its evolution over time, as well as the role that it may play in the transition to a market economy on the island. The economic crisis of the 1990s has propelled the second economy from behind the scenes to center stage. Not only have black markets mushroomed, but second economy activities connected to the free-market that the Castro government has traditionally discouraged or even prosecuted are now being incorporated into the government's own economic strategy. Self-employment, cultivation of individual plots, and the use of foreign currencies to buy or sell goods, are now promoted with considerable enthusiasm by the leadership. Perez-Lopez examines different ways of thinking about unregulated economic activities that have been set forth in the literature and concludes that the concept of the second economy is the most appropriate for Cuba. He brings together available information from a multitude of sources on the manifestations of the second economy in Cuba and of its operation. Cuba's Second Economy is a timely study of an economic system in crisis. It will be of interest to economists, political scientists, policymakers, and Latin America area scholars.
