"Analyzes the reaction of existing and former socialist countries to neoliberalism. Examines economic transitions in agriculture and the reconfiguration of socialism in Russia, China, Nicaragua, and Cuba"--Provided by publisher

Life expectancy and income among the first countries to begin health transitions -- Which countries should be studied? -- A colonizer and the country colonized : Japan and Korea -- Very low income is not a barrier : Sri Lanka -- Two neighbors : Panama and Costa Rica -- Capitalism and communism,...

Introduction: On the brink of change : Cuba's economy and society at the start of the 2010s / Jorge I. Domínguez -- I. Igniting domestic economic growth. The Cuban economy : an evaluation and proposals for necessary policy changes / Omar Everleny Pérez Villanueva ; Monetary duality in Cuba :...