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...

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...