Current Economic and Political Situation
Chair: Armando Linde, President-Elect of ASCE
Jorge Pérez-López
Oscar Espinosa Chepe, Independent Economist
Juan del Aguila, Emory University
Macro and Micro Experiences of Transition
Chair: César Vidal
Ernesto Hernández-Catá, “A Theory of Transition: The Case of the Former Soviet Union”
Armando Linde, “Inflation Targeting: Monetary Policy Contribution to Rules-Based Economic Management”
Antonio Gayoso, “Financial Services, Poverty, and Enterprise: The Case of Cuba”
Luis Locay, University of Miami, “Labor Market Distortions and Speed of Transition in Eastern Europe: Implications for Cuba”
Discussants: Rolando Castañeda; Ricardo Lago
Monetary and Fiscal Issues
Chair: Alfredo Gutiérrez
Mario A. González-Corzo, “The De-dollarization of the Cuban Economy: Principal Policy Measures, Causes, and Impact”
Roberto Orro, “Monetary Reform in Cuba: The End of Dollarization?”
Lorenzo Pérez, “Assessing Fiscal Management and Central Banking in Cuba and Proposals for Improvement”
Discussants: Archibald Ritter; Ricardo Lago
Energy in Cuba: Present Situation and Future Options
Chair: Oscar Echevarría
Jorge Piñón Cervera, “Energy: Cuba’s Achilles Heel”
Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado, University of Nebraska-Omaha, “The Problems and Prospects of a Sustainable
Energy Future in Cuba”
Juan Belt, “Power Sector Reforms in Market and Transition Economies: Lessons for Cuba”
Discussant: Roger Betancourt
External Sector Issues
Chair: William Trumbull, West Virginia University
Terry Maris, Ohio Northern University, “The Dragon and the Crocodile: China’s Role in Cuba’s Future”
Mario A. González-Corzo, Lehman College, The City University of New York, and Scott Larson, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, “Cuba’s Unique Remittance Landscape: A Comparative Perspective”
Rafael Romeu, International Monetary Fund, “The Gravity of Opening Cuba for Caribbean Tourism”
Discussants: Joaquín Pujol; Sergio Díaz-Briquets; William Trumbull, West Virginia University
Politics and Governance Issues
Chair: Armando Linde, President-Elect of ASCE
Alfredo Cuzán, University of West Florida, “Cuba’s Ranking in the Fitzgibbon Denmocracy Index: Reflecting a Leftist Bias?”
Daniel P. Erikson, Inter-American Dialogue, “Can Cuba Escape the Corruption Curse?”
G.B. Hagelberg and José Alvarez, “Command and Countermand: Cuba’s Sugar Industry under Fidel Castro”
Discussants: Juan del Aguila, Emory University; Gustavo Arnavat; Fred Royce, University of Florida
Economic Strategies
Chair: Carlos Quijano
Archibald Ritter, Carleton University, “Cuba: Economic Re-Orientation in a Changing Geo-Political Environment”
Rolando Castañeda, “Cuba: Medidas Fundamentales para Desatar la Transición hacia una Economía de Mercado con Crecimiento Alto y Sostenido”
Salvador Larrúa, “La reconstrucción de Cuba: Dificultades, reflexiones y soluciones”
Discussants: Lorenzo Pérez; Geni Gómez; Joaquín Pujol
The Meaning of Political Exile
Chair: Carlos Espinosa Domínguez
Eduardo Espina, Texas A&M University, “Urusa/Usaguay: El exilio y el país del no ser o ser otro”
Rafael Saumell, Sam Houston State University, “Sin amo pero con patria: exilio e insilio en la cultura cubana”
Soren Triff, Bristol Community College, “Paradojas culturales y contradicciones políticas de la identidad exiliada”
B. E. Aguirre, University of Delaware, “Political Exile as Cultural Trauma”
Discussants: Ricardo Puerta; Jerry Morales
Special Topics I
Chair: Argelio Maldonado
Eudel Cepero and Angelique Lawrence, Florida International University, “Before and After the Cayo Coco Causeway: A Critical View from Space”
Luis Muñoz, “Evaluación de mapas de riesgos y recursos de la problemática actual en el Municipio de La Habana
Vieja”
Larry Daley, “A Pernicious Model for Control of the World Wide Web: The Cuba Case”
Discussants: René Costales; Joseph Scapaci, Virginia Tech
Real Estate-Related Issues
Chair: José Manuel Pallí
Orlando Rivero Valdés, “La tutela jurisdiccional de los derechos reales inmobiliarios en Cuba: Discurso jurídico y
reajuste socioeconómico”
Avelino González, “Propiedad y Derechos Reales en el Código Civil y la Nueva Constitución Cubana de 1976”
Timothy Ashby and Scott Jablonski, “Land Tenure in Cuba: Implications and Potential Models for Foreign Investment in a Future Cuba”
Discussants: Matías Travieso-Díaz, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman; Aldo M. Leiva, Abadin Jaramillo Cook &
Heffernan
Student Papers
Chair: José Alvarez
Elena Sachetti, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain, “Experimenting with Change”
Kelsey Vidaillet, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Violations of Freedom of the Press in Cuba: 1952–1969”
Discussants: María Dolores Espino, St. Thomas University; Alfredo Cuzán, University of West Florida
Special Topics II
Chair: Virgilio Blanco
Terri Dabney, New School, “Cuba and China: The Labor Links”
Carlos Seiglie, Rutgers University, “Socioeconomic Differences between the Races in Cuba and their Implications for a Transition”
Martin Lessenthin, “Working for Human Rights in Cuba by the International Society for Human Rights (ISHR) in Germany, Europe, and Worldwide”
Antonio A. Fernández and Pedro F. Pellet, “Politics and Metaphysics in Cuba: A Socioeconomic Approach”
Discussants: Virgilio Blanco; Luis Locay; Antonio Gayoso
Keynote Address
Ricardo López Murphy, “Las reformas en América Latina: Avances y Retrocesos”
Tourism
Chair: María Werlau
María Dolores Espino, “International Tourism in Socialist Cuba: A Vehicle for Transition?”
Felipe Sixto, “Cuban Trade and Tourism: Economic, Political, and Social Concerns”
Andrea Colantonio, “Tourism Development, Economic Opening Up and Changes in Planning Practices in Cuba
Since 1989”
Discussants: Nicolás Crespo; Art Padilla
Community Medicine: Cuba and Venezuela
Chair: Gary Maybarduk
Katherine Hirschfeld, Oklahoma University, “Cuba’s Community Medicine”
Peter Maybarduk, “Building Community in Venezuela”
Elizabeth Kath, “Proactive Health Policies and Medical Paternalism in Cuba’s Public Health System”
Discussant: Dr. Sandra Domínguez
Military and Demographic Issues
Chair: Frank Mora, National Defense University
Armando Mastrapa, “Military Gerontocracy: A Generational Divide in Cuba’s Armed Forces?”
Domingo Amuchástegui, “FAR: New Generations in Power”
Daniel Perez-Lopez, “Cubans in the Island and in the U.S. Diaspora: Selected Demographic and Social Comparisons”
Discussants: Frank Mora, National Defense University; B.A. Aguirre, University of Delaware
Can Cuba Learn from Central and Eastern Europe?
Chair: José Antonio Font, Alianza Democrática
Tania C. Mastrapa, Mastrapa Consultants, “Collective Guilt, Citizenship, and Your Property”
Orlando Gutiérrez Boronat, Cuban Democratic Directorate, “Shared Experiences of Liberation Movements in Central-East Europe and Cuba”
Pedro Corzo, Journalist and Historian, “La Transición en Cuba, Una Asignatura Pendiente”
Discussant: Juan Carlos Espinosa, Miami Dade College
Agriculture/Agricultural Trade Topics
Chair: Jim Ross, University of Florida
Vanessa Harper, University of Florida, “A Micro-Economic Analysis of Farm Household Livelihood Strategies in the Sierra del Rosario Mountains in Western Cuba in Human Ecological Perspective”
Gary Maybarduk, “Agricultural Privatization in Transitional Economies: The Experience So Far”
William A. Messina, Jr., University of Florida, “Cuban Agriculture and U.S.-Cuban Agricultural Trade: Flourishing or Failing?”
Discussants: Antonio Gayoso; Paolo Spadoni
Cuban Immigration, Family Visits, and Academic Exchange: Recent Trends, State Policies, and Future Prospects
Chair: Mario González-Corzo
Phil Peters, Lexington Institute, “Sanctions Against Cuba: An Ethical Perspective”
Sergio Díaz-Briquets, “Cuban Global Emigration at the Turn of the Century: Overall Estimate and Selected Characteristics of the Emigrant Population”
Ted Henken, “Balseros in Alabama: Refugee Settlement Experiences and the Divided Fates of Cuban Rafters in the New South”
Discussants: Silvia Pedraza, University of Michigan; Stephen Kimmerling, Esq.; Felipe Sixto, Center for a Free Cuba
Meeting to Define Economic Policy Actions for Submission to the Council of Ministers of Cuba: A Simulation
Coordinator: Jorge Sanguinetty
Council Members:
Armando Linde, Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy
Ernesto Hernández-Catá, Wage/Price Policies and Safety Net
Lorenzo Pérez, Fiscal Policy
Matías Travieso-Díaz, Privatization
Joaquín Pujol, International Economic Policy
Antonio Gayoso, Agriculture and Small Enterprise Development
Comments by External Advisors
Carlos Quijano
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