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 :...

This paper explores the social, economic and ideological context within which the World Summit for Social Development took place. As its subtitle implies, the discussion focuses particularly on some of the assumptions about global trends that were prevalent in 1995 and evaluates their adequacy...