Cuba's Socialist Economy Toward the 1990s

An up-to-date assessment of Cuba's economic performance and structure, offering a timely, balanced portrait of the country's development record, as well as an incisive discussion of its present economic problematics and its possible trajectory. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: Cuba's Socialist Economy Toward the 1990s 1 Patterns of Cuban Development: The First Twenty-five Years 2 Agricultural Policy and Development in Cuba 3 Gender Issues in Contemporary Cuban Tobacco Farming 4 The Performance of the Cuban Sugar Industry, 1981-85 5 Cuban Industrial Growth, 1965-84 6 Development and Prospects of Capital Goods Production in Revolutionary Cuba 7 The Cuban Health Care System: Responsiveness to Changing Needs and Demands 8 Worker Incentives in Cuba 9 Power at the Workplace: The Resolution of Worker- Management Conflict in Cuba 10 Cuban Planning in the Mid-1980s: Centralization, Decentralization, and Participation 11 Trade, Debt, and the Cuban Economy The Contributors Index