This article examines the status of small business development in Cuba through 1999, and evaluates the potential future of small enterprises in Cuban transition to democracy and capitalism. In any transition small enterprise development is highly desireable, if not essential, for creating a...

This paper examines the empirical link between the growth of production in a central city and the distribution of income among its residents, by race and ethnicity, within an input-output modeling approach. The specific case of Miami, Florida is considered. This paper reviews the recent...

In this paper we provide estimates of direct, indirect and induced economic impacts from international trade activity in Miami-Dade using an input-output model developed with IMPLAN software. It is commonly believed in South Florida that international trade is an important determinant of...

The history of economic transition since the collapse of communism in the late 1980s and early 1990s offers many lessons for what Cuba may expect when it eventually embarks on its transition path. The path of transition has been more difficult than was conceived immediately following the...