Learning from tourism without having to go to China
It is true that there is a great deal to learn about the economy, not just from China but also...
Mountaineering and exports
High risk sports (mountaineering, scuba diving, parachuting, all of them) require very clear, easy to understand rules that transmit simple...
The public, the private and wellbeing
The following story I’m going to tell was given to me by a good friend, who is already retired and...
Stockpiling, commerce and planning
A feature article, “El papel lo aguanta todo” (Paper Puts Up with Everything), which appeared in the newspaper Invasor about...
Improving the rules of the game
Reuters’ news again submerged me in that so special relationship between our country and that other one: that during...
Foreign Direct Investment, Prosperity and Development
Since the late 1980s, foreign direct investment (FDI) has been included among the potential resources Cuba has had to...
What is the price of the uncertainty?
The image of Donald Trump throwing rolls of toilet paper to Puerto Rico’s population and the news that the...
Irma and sustainable development
For many the coincidence of three hurricanes and an earthquake, almost all of them at the same time and...
Our everyday “self-employment”
“And so: yes or no? Do you remember when the fried food stalls disappeared?” Those were my friend Goyo’s welcome...
Cuban science and development
At the recent first session of the National Assembly of People’s Power, one of the relevant issues was related to...
The wished-for economic growth
The growth goal (2 percent) is again becoming a focal point at the recently concluded first half of the year....
Foreign direct investment also needs Cuba
Do not interpret the title as it is, this has nothing to do with the size of the Cuban market,...
The Cuban economy’s roadmap
The news that the Plenum of the Central Committee of the Cuban Communist Party had approved the documents that have...
Speaking of enterprises and entrepreneurs (II)
Our entrepreneurial world of today is surprisingly diverse, in the types as well as the size of the enterprises and...
Speaking of enterprises and entrepreneurs (I)
The Cuban entrepreneurial world has experienced a significant diversification in recent years. For some that diversification is the logical way...
When water returns to the ground
Cuba has no water problems. That affirmation, just like that, in such a categorical way, is by someone some time...
The science making machine (II)
A few days ago baseball player Alfredo Despaigne batted a homerun that allowed Cuba to classify for the second round...
Major U.S. Companies in Cuban Market
It is true that several U.S. companies have signed agreements with Cuban state enterprises. Some of them are in the...
The gerund and the economy
Time is very important, perhaps the most important of all the magnitudes. Even for the economy. Moreover, we Cubans have...
Foreign investment, open the other leaf
It was Goyo who called my attention about a very interesting daily event when he said to me: “Have you...
Cuba’s economic growth does not depend on Washington
Just some days ago the Emily Morris Academy published an article sustaining that Cuba is not facing a failure, but...
Can the Cuban economy grow 2 percent in 2017?
President Raúl Castro said so himself on December 2015, and later during the second session of the National Assembly in...
Stiglitz and the Cuban economy
We economists once again had the luck and the privilege of having in Cuba U.S. economist, professor in diverse universities...
I’ve learned how to read and write
He actually didn’t know what all that meant. The uniform, the beret, the lantern, all that seemed as big as...
The miracle of the Vietnamese
“They work. They resemble fine silversmiths in everything they do, in wood, in mother-of-pearl, as gunsmiths, in textiles, in painting,...
