This paper reviews the situation in the agricultural sector and food security in Cuba and in particular the … countries" and show that Cuba does not fit easily in one of the transition patterns, and, in a way, has characteristics of "a …

social policies were the main social elevators for the formerly underprivileged classes in socialist Cuba, the economic … business sector in Cuba has largely disfavoured Afro-Cubans, due to their lack of access to pre-revolutionary property and …

The collection of solid waste and the recovery of recyclable material from waste belong to the many challenges Cuba has … waste management we develop suggestions for an improvement of the waste situation in Cuba. These suggestions take into … account that the financial means available for a reform of the waste management system in Cuba are severely restricted …

deviant case of Cuba's 'non-transition' from a comparative social science perspective can shed light on the peculiarities of … this case and, more importantly, test the general assumptions underlying post-1989 expectations of regime change in Cuba … exceptionalism with a more long-term historic perspective. Moreover, they suggest that interpretations of Cuba as simply a 'belated …

field work in Cuba is being planned, and the objective of this paper is toidentify some research strategies for that field …

examines two cases of reformed communist regimes (China and Vietnam) with two relatively unreformed cases (North Korea and Cuba … a flexible legitimation strategy while North Korea and Cuba adopted a comparatively rigid legitimation approach. …