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Cuba's Second Economy - From behind the Scenes to Center Stage (Paperback)
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Cuba's Second Economy - From behind the Scenes to Center Stage (Paperback)
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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.
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