The Cuban economy / edited by Archibald R.M. Ritter.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. Economic performance and the process of reform -- 1. The Cuban economy in the twenty-first century : recuperation or relapse? / Archibald R. M. Ritter -- 2. Economic and ideological cycles in Cuba : policy and performance, 1959-2002 / Carmelo Mesa-Lago -- II. Central international issues -- 3. Cuban monetary policy : peso, dollar, or euro? / Nicholas Rowe and Ana Julia Yanes Faya -- 4. Export processing zones in Cuba / Larry Willmore -- III. The agricultural sector -- 5. Crisis and reform in Cuba's sugar economy / Brian H. Pollitt -- 6. Cuban agriculture in transition : the impacts of policy changes on agricultural production, food markets, and trade / William A. Messina, Jr. -- IV. Entrepreneurship and economic reform -- 7. The taxation of microenterprise / Archibald R. M. Ritter -- 8. Foreign investment in Cuba / Jorge F. Perez-Lopez -- 9. The Cuban software industry / Luis Casaco -- V. Labor and society -- 10. The macroeconomics of social security finance / Maria Cristina Sabourin Jovel -- 11. Corruption and the Cuban transition / Jorge F. Perez-Lopez -- 12. Human resources and development : what to do after the Periodo Especial? / Francisco Leon.