The Economics Of Cuban Sugar

Author : Jorge Perez-Lopez
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1991-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822976714

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The Economics of Cuban Sugar by Jorge Perez-Lopez Pdf

Sugar, the backbone of the Cuban economic life for centuries, continues to dominate the economy of socialist Cuba. After initial attempts at diversification following the Revolution, the Cuban regime rehabilitated the sugar industry in 1965, making the country again vulnerable to swings in world market prices and the dangers of overdependence on a single agricultural product. Pérez-López examines the various efforts at economic planning in the years following the Revolution and provides in-depth analysis of aspects particular to the sugar industry: cultivation, mechanization, energy and transportation, refining and the manufacture of sugar derivatives, production costs, and foreign trade.

Author : Alan Dye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0804728194

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Cuban Sugar in the Age of Mass Production by Alan Dye Pdf

This book examines the modernization of the Cuban sugar industry from the end of the Cuban War of Independence throughout the ensuing boom in the sugar industry. An underlying theme of the book is the close connection between the technical and organizational changes in the Cuban sugar industry and the technological changes behind the managerial revolution in industrial countries. The technical changes in the sugar industry, marked by the diffusion of mass production technologies and the adoption in Cuba of modern central factories, were characteristic of most progressive industries of that time. In general, the application of mass production technologies heralded the transition from proprietorships to modern hierarchical and corporate forms of business organization. This book links the development in the Cuban sugar industry to the global movement in business organization and technology that has been referred to as the rise of managerial capitalism. The first three decades of the twentieth century have been recognized as critical in Cuba's history, because the economic foundations -- including the rise of sugar latifundismo -- were laid for the Cuban revolution. Most of the existing literature has focused on the social impact of the profound socio-economic and institutional changes that came with the massive entrance of capital from North America. The line of investigation in this book is unique in that it examines the economic factors that underlay these socio-economic and institutional changes. What have frequently been seen as the effects of political intervention or imperialism the author identifies as economic outcomes caused by mass production technology. This is the firstbook to apply the tools of the "new economic history" to Cuba, complementing traditional historical methods with rigorous use of economic theory, transaction-cost economics, and quantitative methods to arrive at its conclusions.

Author : Jorge F. Pérez-López,Jose Alvarez
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0739110004

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Reinventing the Cuban Sugar Agroindustry by Jorge F. Pérez-López,Jose Alvarez Pdf

One of the key issues that faces Cuban policymakers today, and will continue to face them, is what steps to take in order to ensure the future of the sugar industry. In 2002, nearly one-half of the country's cultivated land was occupied by the 156 fully functional sugar mills, more than a dozen plants and refineries, and the complex transportation infrastructure brought about by the commerce. The loss of preferential markets for Cuban sugar that arose from the demise of the international socialist community constitutes a crisis that the Cuban government has only begun to address, with a radical restructuring plan that would foresee the reduction of sugar land and the elimination of about 100,000 jobs, for increased economic emphasis on tourism. The radical premise of this volume is that there is a future in the twenty-first century for a reinvented Cuban sugar agroindustry, responsive to market signals, organized around smaller and more agile production units, producing raw sugar as well as high value-added outputs, and using some of the facilities to produce ethanol and generate electricity. The editors have asked over a dozen recognized world experts on Cuban agroindustry to analyze specific topics and make recommendations that would not only reinvent an industry for effective transition to a free-market environment but that has the potential to reinvigorate the Cuban economy, providing employment opportunities and generating wealth for generations of Cubans to come.

Author : Heinrich Brunner
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1977-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822976158

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Cuban Sugar Policy from 1963 to 1970 by Heinrich Brunner Pdf

In 1963 Cuba launched a program to develop its economy by expanding its sugar production and export trade. Cuban economists believed that through intensive development of this leading sector, they could generate capital to invest in manufacturing and thus move away from a one-crop economy. After providing background information on Cuba's prerevolutionary economy, Brunner explores the effects of Communist ideology and the U.S. embargo on the country's resources and trade, and analyzes the problems Cuba faced in shifting from trade with the U.S. to trade with the Soviet Union and Soviet bloc. He evaluates their implementation of the development plan, assessing the sugar industry within Cuba as well as how its accelerated development affected the rest of the domestic economy.

Author : Archibald R.M. Ritter
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822970798

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the Cuban Economy by Archibald R.M. Ritter Pdf

Cuba faced an economic meltdown of catastrophic proportions in the early 1990s when covert subsidies from the former Soviet Union disappeared. Policies instituted by the island republic's government to handle the worst problems have had inconsistent results. Opening the economy to foreign enterprise has resulted in positive growth in tourism and nickel and cigar exports. However, remnants of the older economy, including the sugar and biotechnological industries, have only experienced a decrease in capital and importance. Basic educational and health services have been maintained surprisingly well, but the standard of living is still far below the highs of the 1980s. With contributions from many leading Cuba scholars, The Cuban Economy offers not only an analysis of the economy since 1990, but also a look towards future prospects.

Author : Louis A. Pérez Jr.
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469651439

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Rice in the Time of Sugar by Louis A. Pérez Jr. Pdf

How did Cuba's long-established sugar trade result in the development of an agriculture that benefited consumers abroad at the dire expense of Cubans at home? In this history of Cuba, Louis A. Perez proposes a new Cuban counterpoint: rice, a staple central to the island's cuisine, and sugar, which dominated an export economy 150 years in the making. In the dynamic between the two, dependency on food imports—a signal feature of the Cuban economy—was set in place. Cuban efforts to diversify the economy through expanded rice production were met with keen resistance by U.S. rice producers, who were as reliant on the Cuban market as sugar growers were on the U.S. market. U.S. growers prepared to retaliate by cutting the sugar quota in a struggle to control Cuban rice markets. Perez's chronicle culminates in the 1950s, a period of deepening revolutionary tensions on the island, as U.S. rice producers and their allies in Congress clashed with Cuban producers supported by the government of Fulgencio Batista. U.S. interests prevailed—a success, Perez argues, that contributed to undermining Batista's capacity to govern. Cuba's inability to develop self-sufficiency in rice production persists long after the triumph of the Cuban revolution. Cuba continues to import rice, but, in the face of the U.S. embargo, mainly from Asia. U.S. rice growers wait impatiently to recover the Cuban market.

Author : César J. Ayala
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807867976

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American Sugar Kingdom by César J. Ayala Pdf

Engaging conventional arguments that the persistence of plantations is the cause of economic underdevelopment in the Caribbean, this book focuses on the discontinuities in the development of plantation economies in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic in the early twentieth century. Cesar Ayala analyzes and compares the explosive growth of sugar production in the three nations following the War of 1898--when the U.S. acquired Cuba and Puerto Rico--to show how closely the development of the Spanish Caribbean's modern economic and social class systems is linked to the history of the U.S. sugar industry during its greatest period of expansion and consolidation. Ayala examines patterns of investment and principal groups of investors, interactions between U.S. capitalists and native planters, contrasts between new and old regions of sugar monoculture, the historical formation of the working class on sugar plantations, and patterns of labor migration. In contrast to most studies of the Spanish Caribbean, which focus on only one country, his account places the history of U.S. colonialism in the region, and the history of plantation agriculture across the region, in comparative perspective.

Author : Jose Alvarez,Lazaro Peña Castellanos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0813020751

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Cuba's Sugar Industry by Jose Alvarez,Lazaro Peña Castellanos Pdf

Following forty years of tension between Cuba and the United States, this study of Cuba's agro-industry presents the results of a remarkable collaboration between researchers living in the two countries. The authors consider the prospects for the sugar industry - offering scenarios of a smaller, more efficient role in the economy - and examine reforms of the early 1990s.

Author : Félix Goizueta-Mimó
Publisher : Dissertations-G
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UVA:X001275468

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Bitter Cuban Sugar by Félix Goizueta-Mimó Pdf

Author : Edward Boorstein
Publisher : New York : Modern Reader Paperbacvks
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173018663294

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The Economic Transformation of Cuba by Edward Boorstein Pdf

Study of the economic implications of political changes in Cuba - covers political problems, socialist economic administration, economic planning, economic policy, etc., and includes examination of the role of USA in Latin America and a comparison of the economy of Cuba with that of other socialist countries.

Author : Jorge Salazar-Carrillo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351524773

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Cuba by Jorge Salazar-Carrillo Pdf

This book is a study of Cuba's economic development under communism over the last fifty-five years. The authors find that Cuba's socioeconomic development has gone backward since the Cuban Revolution in 1959. The authors conclude that Fidel Castro's revolution has been an economic disaster for Cuba. The book first outlines Cuba's economic position prior to the revolution. It reviews Cuba's rankings with respect to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita in the 1950s and examines the strength of pre-Castro Cuba's foreign reserves and the health of its monetary system. It also presents pre-Castro Cuba's investments in health care and education and documents the island's development potential in the 1950s. The last few chapters describe the precipitous decline in all of these areas of Cuba's economy under Castro. Despite the socioeconomic catastrophe of the Castro years, the authors envision a post-Castro Cuba, where this book can provide a benchmark to measure the developmental success that the Cuban work-ethic and entrepreneurial spirit can generate in a free-market system.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : WISC:89037214988

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Agricultural Economic Report by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jorge F. Pérez-López
Publisher : Transaction Pub
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1995-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1560001895

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Cuba's Second Economy by Jorge F. Pérez-López Pdf

The economic crisis of the 1990s has propelled the second economy from behind the scenes to center stage. Not only have black markets mushroomed, but second economy activities connected to the free-market that the Castro government has traditionally discouraged or even prosecuted are now being incorporated into the government's own economic strategy. Self-employment, cultivation of individual plots, and the use of foreign currencies to buy or sell goods, are now promoted with considerable enthusiasm by the leadership.

Author : H. Yaffe
Publisher : Springer
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230233874

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Che Guevara by H. Yaffe Pdf

Che Guevara remains an iconic figure, four decades after his death. Yet his most significant contribution - his work as a member of the Cuban government - is rarely discussed. This book explores his impact on Cuba's economy, through fascinating new archival material and interviews.

Author : Sergio Roca
Publisher : Sage Publications (CA)
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCAL:B2806917

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Cuban Economic Policy and Ideology by Sergio Roca Pdf