Caught in a Perfect Storm: Are Havana’s Responses Sufficient? (4-6 January 2021)

Organized by the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy with contributions from the Coalition for Peace & Ethics.

Registration

Registration is free but required. There are a limited number of spaces available. Registration permits the user to attend any of the Conference events. Each event requires a separate registration.

Conference Theme:

The theme of ASCE’s January conference will focus on Cuba’s current economic problems and the Cuban governments announced responses (reforms). The focus will be on analysis of policies and suggested policies that improve those reforms. Indeed, the issue of Reform, yet again, as it has so many times over the long arc of the history of post “revolutionary” Cuba, has been one of developing elegant statements of idealized objectives and then offering what in retrospect might be characterized second or third best solutions; and that might be the only thing on offer now. Yet even these second best solutions can be used to bring significant improvements to the Cuban economy.

Pre-Conference Interview Series

Participants and other contributors discuss their work with Larry Catá Backer leading up to the Conference.

Program

The Conference extends over three days and offers six exciting events. They include five panels: They include (1) Cuba’s Economic Situation and Strategy; (2) Cuba’s External Relations; (3) US-Cuba Economic Relations; (4) Cuban Agricultural Challenges; an (5) the Cuba-Venezuela Crisis.  In addition, Jorge Dominguez has organized a marvelous discussion around the book La Cuba que quisimos: Essays on the New Cuban Constitution. 

Participant Bios

Click above to meet (virtually) our conference participants.

Participant Shared Papers and PPTs

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Conference Videos

The six sessions of the Virtual Conference have been recorded. They are available free of charge to all members in good standing of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE). To access please consider joining. Click here (https://www.ascecuba.org/membership/) to join.

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