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Two Decades of Cuban Socialism: The Economic Context

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ECONOMIC GROWTH, BASIC NEEDS AND INCOME DISTRIBUTION IN REVOLUTIONARY CUBA. By BRUNDENIUSCLAES. (Lund, Sweden: Research Policy Institute, University of Lund, 1981. Pp. 232.)
CUBA: CAMBIO ECONÓMICO Y REFORMA EDUCATIVA (1955-1978). By CARNOYMARTIN and WERTHEINJORGE. (Mexico: Editorial Nueva Imágen, 1980. Pp. 158.)
THE CUBAN ECONOMY: A STATISTICAL REVIEW. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Foreign Assessment Center, ER 81-10052/PA 81-10074 (March 1981. Pp. 54.)

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2022

Jorge F. Pérez-López
Jorge F. Pérez-López*
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , 1983 , pp. 227 - 242
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Copyright © 1983 by the University of Texas Press

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The views expressed in this review are strictly those of the author and do not represent the views of the Department of Labor.

References

Notes

1. Ernesto Guevara, Obra revolucionaria (Mexico: Ediciones Era, 1971), pp. 426, 427, 432.

2. Granma, 28 July 1982, pp. 3-4.

3. For example, the Anuario Estadístico de Cuba 1980, which contains economic data for 1980 (with the major exceptions of foreign trade and wages and salaries, for which the most current data reported is for 1978 and 1979, respectively), was published in mid-1982.

4. Alan Abouchar, Economic Evaluation of Soviet Socialism (New York: Pergamon Press, 1979).

5. For data on the 1953 and 1970 censuses, see Junta Central de Planificación, Dirección de Estadística, La situación de la vivienda en Cuba y su evolución perspectiva (La Habana: Editorial Orbe, 1976), p. 47; for the 1981 census, see Comité Estatal de Estadísticas, Censo de población y viviendas 1981: cifras preliminares (December 1981), p. 125.

6. “The Cuban Economy in the Period 1959-63,” Economic Survey of Latin America 1963 (New York: United Nations, 1965).

7. The summary, which appeared as “La economía cubana en el período 1959-1963,” Noticias de la CEPAL (December 1964), was also reprinted in Comercio Exterior (Mexico) 15, 2 (February 1965), and in Economía y Agricultura (Lima) 6 (1965), for example.

8. Economic Survey of Latin America 1965 (New York: United Nations, 1967).

9. Apreciaciones sobre el estilo de desarrollo y sobre las principales políticas sociales en Cuba, CEPAL/MEX/77/22/Rev 3 (Mexico: CEPAL, 1978).

10. “Cuba,” in Economic Survey of Latin America 1978 (Santiago de Chile: CEPAL, 1980). Beginning with this issue, CEPAL resumed publication of annual country notes on Cuba in the Economic Survey; however, Cuba is not considered in the regional analysis that precedes the country notes.

11. The study has also been included as a chapter in U.S. Congress, Joint Economic Committee, East-West Trade: The Prospects to 1985 (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1982), pp. 104-35.

12. For example, Central Intelligence Agency, The Cuban Economy: A Statistical Review 1968-1976, ER76-10708 (December 1976).

13. Martin Carnoy and Jorge Werthein, Cuba: Economic Change and Educational Reform 1955-1974, World Bank Staff Working Paper No. 317 (Washington: The World Bank, 1979). Interestingly, the direct translation of this work, under review in this essay, is Cuba: cambio económico y reforma educativa (1955-1978). That is, according to the titles, the time span covered by the Spanish-language version is four years longer than in the original, although there is no change in the text or in the underlying data presented.

14. In Cuba, Noyola is regarded as an internationalist hero. In May 1982, ceremonies were held in Havana honoring Noyola on what would have been his sixtieth birthday. See, for example, “Trabajar en Cuba fue la tarea más importante que le encomendaran en su carrera,” Granma, 8 May 1962, p. 3.

15. The transcript of the lecture appeared in Investigación Económica (Mexico) 21, 82 (1961).

16. Juan F. Noyola, “La revolución cubana y sus efectos en el desarrollo económico,” El Trimestre Económico 28, 111 (July-September 1961); Felipe Pazos, “Comentarios a dos artículos sobre la revolución cubana,” El Trimestre Económico 29, 113 (January 1962).

17. Juan Noyola and Francisco García, “Principales objetivos de nuestro plan económico hasta 1965,” Cuba Socialista 4, 13 (September 1962).

18. For an important discussion of Cuban demographic issues, see Sergio Diaz-Briquets and Lisandro Pérez, “Cuba: The Demography of Revolution,” Population Bulletin 36, 1 (April 1981).

19. John M. Leger, “Cuba Requests Delay in Paying Its Foreign Debt,” The Wall Street Journal, 1 September 1982, p. 19.