Cuba en los noventa : reorientación económica y reintegración internacional

Authors

  • Archibald R.M. Ritter

Abstract

With the beginning of the 1990s, Cuba faces serious economic difficulties, great uncertainty and strong geopolitical pressures due to economic and political changes at the domestic level. This country will have to respond to the new situation in which it finds itself through a profound reorientation of the internal economy as well as through a new type of insertion in the international economic and geopolitical systems. This paper examines the forces that currently operate and require changes in the Cuban economy, as well as their integration into the international system, emphasizing international and domestic factors. It also explores which are the possible policies and the most feasible economic changes when Cuba seeks its reintegration into the international system and the modification of its economy, with a view to achieving true and sustainable economic growth, with sustained distributive equity.

Keywords:

Cuba, Crisis, International Reintegration, Economic Policy, Growth

Author Biography

Archibald R.M. Ritter

Canadiense, profesor en la Escuela de Asuntos Internacionales y el Departamento de Economía de Carleton University, Ottawa, Canadá. Sus investigaciones y cursos abarcan los temas de las dimensiones internacionales del desarrollo, teorías del desarrollo, macroeconomía en un contexto de desarrollo económico, problemas del desarrollo en Latinoamérica, e integración y cooperación regional entre países en desarrollo. Es autor de varios libros, incluyendo The Economic Development of Revolutionary Cuba: Strategy and Performance y Development Strategy and Structural Adjustment in Chile: from the Unidad Popular to the Concertation 1970-1992. Sus artículos han aparecido en una variedad de publicaciones, incluyendo The Canadian Joumal of Development Studies, Cuban Studies/Estudios Cubanos y The Journal of lnteramerican Studies and World Affaírs.