Vicinity Matters: Cuba&apos;s Reforms in Comparative Perspective

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Author(s): Ricardo Torres Pérez

Publication date (Print): Winter 2016

Journal: International Journal of Cuban Studies

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Keywords: Cuban economy, economic changes, US blockade, China, Vietnam

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Publication date (Print): Winter 2016

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Feinberg, Richard (2011) Reaching Out: Cuba's New Economy and the International Response . Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.
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[1] Blazyca, G. (1980) ‘Industrial Structure and the Economic Problems of Industry in a Centrally Planned Economy: The Polish Case’, The Journal of Industrial Economics 28(3): 313–26.

[2] Domínguez, Jorge I. (2009) La política exterior de Cuba (1962–2009) . Madrid: Editorial Colibrí.

[3] Eaton, Jonathan and Samuel Kortum (2001) ‘Trade in Capital Goods’, NBER Working Papers, No. 8070.

[4] Feinberg, Richard (2011) Reaching Out: Cuba's New Economy and the International Response . Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.

[5] Figueras, Miguel A. (1999) Aspectos estructurales de la economía cubana . La Habana, Cuba: Félix Varela.

[6] Fouquin, M., H. Guimbard, C. Herzog, et al. (2012) Panorama de l'économie mondiale . París: CEPII.

[7] International Labor Organization (20 de noviembre de, 2015) ‘Laborsta’. Ginebra . Available at https://laborsta.ilo.org. (Accessed 24 November 2016.)

[8] Kornai, János (2014) ‘The Soft Budget Constraint’, Acta Oeconomica 64: 25–79.

[9] Leogrande, William M. (12 de April de, 2013) ‘The Cuba Lobby’. Foreign Policy . http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/04/12/the-cuba-lobby/. (Accessed 20 October 2015.)

[10] Leogrande, William M. (2015) ‘A Policy Long Past Its Expiration Date: US Economic Sanctions Against Cuba’, Social Research: An International Quarterly 82(4): 939–66.

[11] Montenegro, Claudio E. and Raimundo Soto (1996) ‘How Distorted Is Cuba's Trade? Evidence and Predictions From Gravity Model’, Journal of International Trade and Economic Development 5(1): 45–68.

[12] Morris, Emily (2014) ‘Unexpected Cuba’, New Left Review 88: 5–45.

[13] Myant, Martin and Jan Drahokoupil (2011) Transition Economies: Political Economy in Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia . Danvers, MA: John Wiley.

[14] Pérez, Omar E. (2010) ‘Estrategia económica: Medio siglo de socialismo’, en Omar E. Pérez (ed.) Cincuenta años de la economía cubana . La Habana, Cuba: Ciencias Sociales, 1–24.

[15] Portes, Alejandro and Aaron Puhrmann (2015) ‘A Bifurcated Enclave: The Economic Evolution of the Cuban and Cuban American Population of Metropolitan Miami’, Cuban Studies 43: 40–63.

[16] Rodríguez, José Luis (1990) Estrategia del desarrollo económico en Cuba . La Habana, Cuba: Ciencias Sociales.

[17] Rodríguez, José Luis (30 de noviembre de, 2015) ‘El proceso de transformaciones económicas en Cuba y el FMI (I y II)’. Cuba Contemporánea . Available at http://www.cubadebate.cu/opinion/2015/11/21/el-proceso-de-transformaciones-economicas-en-cuba-y-el-fmi/#.WCigFCs5Dcs. (Accessed 24 November 2016.)

[18] Sánchez, Marlén (2015) ‘Cuba y las Instituciones Financieras Internacionales: Explorando vías para un acercamiento’, En Ricardo Torres et al. (eds) Cuba en un nuevo escenario. Perspectivas de desarrollo económico . La Habana, Cuba: Publicaciones Acuario. Centro Félix Varela, 86–102.

[19] Torres, Ricardo (2013) ‘Algunas contradicciones del desarrollo económico cubano contemporáneo’, in Omar E. Pérez and Ricardo Torres (eds) Miradas a la economía cubana. Entre la eficiencia económica y la equidad social . La Habana, Cuba: Editorial Caminos, 29–40.

[20] Torres, Ricardo (2014) ‘Transformations in the Cuban Economic Model: Context, General Proposal, and Challenges’, Latin American Perspectives 41(4): 74–90.

[21] Torres, Ricardo (2015) ‘Inversión y asignación de recursos: Una discusión del caso cubano’, Cuban Studies 44.

[22] Vidal, Pavel and Scott Brown (2015) Cuba's Economic Reintegration: Begin With the International Financial Institutions . Washington, DC: Atlantic Council.

[23] Weill, Laurent (2008) ‘On the Inefficiency of European Socialist Economies’, Journal of Productivity Analysis 29: 79–89.

[24] The World Bank (2015) World Development Indicators . Washington, DC: The World Bank Group.