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Since 1986, Cuba has been engaged in a national effort to redirect its policy and economy; this effort, spearheaded by President Castro, is generally known as the "rectification" campaign. An assessment of the economic effects of rectification after its first three years suggests that it has not turned the Cuban economy around. Moreover, it is questionable that rectification could do so in the medium term, considering the reforms that are taking place in Cuba's main trading partners, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

Cuba costuma proporcionar a la Oficina Internacional del Trabajo datos que no se publican en estadisticas nacionales, a saber: informacion sobre salarios, ingresos, horas de trabajo por ocupacion, y precios al detalle de productos comunmente comprados por los trabajadores cubanos. Esta nota hace algunas observaciones preliminares respecto a problemas tales como los diferenciales de salarios e ingresos intersectoriales y por sexos, la importancia de las ganancias no-salariales, y el comportamiento de los precios

At the Third Congress of the Cuban Communist Party, Fidel Castro expressed considerable displeasure with the Cuban economy in the first half of the 1980's. Falling prices for oil and sugar on the international market have aggravated the nation's balance of payments and debt problems. Castro's response - to tinker with the planning bureaucracy and to launch a new revolutionary counteroffensive - appears to threaten Cuba's modest progress toward rationalization and marketization of its economy. Should Havana proceed in the indicated direction, one can expect bad times ahead for the Cuban economy

Darstellung der methodischen Schwierigkeiten einer fundierten Untersuchung der kubanischen Wirtschaftsentwicklung seit der Revolution und Rezension einiger neuerer Beiträge über Leistungen und Perspektiven des sozialistischen Modells und die Möglichkeiten seiner Übertragung auf andere Entwicklungsländer

The extensive post-1973 literature analyzing and comparing national energy policies across countries has generally excluded Cuba, purportedly because of the unavailability of appropriate data. As a result, very little serious work has been carried out assessing Cuba's current energy balances and the efficacy of its policies in adjusting to the new global energy situation. While it is incontrovertible that available official Cuban energy data are weak, it can be argued that, when supplemented with data from other sources and with reasonable estimates, they can serve as the basis for tentative analysis of energy policies. This note attempts to lay the groundwork for such future analyses by bringing together and evaluating energy supply and consumption data covering the first two decades of revolutionary government. While the emphasis is on the period 1959–78, pre-1959 data are introduced when appropriate in an effort to put recent trends in historical perspective. The first section focuses on primary energy production and considers the contribution of commercial and noncommercial sources to domestic energy supply. In the second section, imports of primary energy products are considered and their role in total energy supply evaluated. The last section examines tentatively some aspects of Cuban energy consumption and attempts to relate consumption patterns to policies that were in effect during the period.