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Situating the stories of Andrea, Silvia, Ana, and Pamela -- Childhood and coming of age in Nicaragua -- Violent expressions of gender inequalities -- Emigrating for their children to get ahead -- The children of Andrea, Ana, and Pamela.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures, Tables, and Maps -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations and Key Terms -- Introduction -- PART 1. Transitions from Socialism and Their Social Consequences -- 1 The Theoretical Backdrop -- 2 Small Farmers in a Contrasting Light -- PART 2. Nicaragua's Rapid Retreat from Socialism -- 3 The Economic Strategy of the Post-1990 State -- 4 The Economic Strategy's Varying Impact on Nicaragua's Small Farmers -- PART 3. The Reconfiguration of Cuban Socialism -- 5 Cuba's Post-1990 Economic Strategy -- 6 The Reconfiguration's Varying Impact on Cuba's Small Farmers -- Conclusion. Transitions Toward the Market and Their Theoretical Implications -- Postscript -- Appendixes -- Bibliography -- Index

"Close study of the changing political responses of two peasant populations whose neighboring regions near the Pacific coast experienced different impacts from the Sandinista agrarian reforms. Shows the irony of some reform-beneficiaries turning against their benefactor-regime, a more likely event when productive relations become privatized. Argues, contra Huntington, that demobilization of various social groups will work against the achievement of development goals"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

PurposeIn response to its profound economic crisis, in the 1990s Cuba adopted a tourism‐based development strategy. As an approach to development, tourism has been both heralded and critiqued. One concern is that for less diversified economies it has large imported input requirements. The purpose of this paper is to analyze Cuba's efforts to address this weakness.Design/methodology/approachThe paper draws on interviews conducted with Cuban policy makers and researchers working in the area of tourism, and one hotelier operating in Cuba. Also, extensive secondary data collected while conducting the fieldwork in Cuba and relevant existing literature are reviewed.FindingsIt is found that Cuba has increased significantly its reliance on domestic production for inputs for its tourist sector since the mid‐1990s, thereby reducing its dependence on imported inputs.Practical implicationsThese findings suggest that, by reconfiguring domestic production to provide inputs for the tourism sector, foreign exchange leakages typically associated with tourist development in less diversified economies can be diminished and that it can provide an infusion of foreign exchange and investment that benefits the local economy.Social implicationsThis case presents an alternative to the neoliberal approach to policy making in the Global South, one that has the potential to avoid some of the negative social and economic consequences of that approach.Originality/valueIn addition to highlighting the alternative represented by Cuba's approach to tourism, the paper evaluates the extent to which it approximated the novel strategy of development proposed by the neostructuralists almost simultaneously. It concludes that Cuba's approach did approximate the neostructural model in a number of important ways.