Developing the Cuban Economy: the Private Sector and the new cooperatives within a USA scenario.

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

The Cuban economy has been going through an uncertain updating process since the last seven years. Nevertheless 2015 have become an inflection point for Cuba, the United States of America and the entire American Continent. Within the restoration of the USA-Cuba diplomatic relations it has open too, strongly and widely, the business opportunities that both nations have been waiting for a long time. This panel aims to the consequences and perspectives -within the new status of the bilateral relations- of doing business for the Cuban’s private and State-run companies as well as the American companies in the short term.

Sub Track

• Economics and Social Policies

Session Organizer

• Robert L Brown

Chair

• Juan Alejandro Triana Barros

Individual Presentations

• Lessons for Cuba-USA trade. - Robert L Brown

• Non-agricultural cooperatives in Cuba, a new space for entrepreneurs: perspectives associated with restoration of Cuba-USA relations. - Meylin Pacheco Fernández, Havana University

• The balance between the Cuban’s private and state-run sector within the USA scenario. - Juan Alejandro Triana Barros

• The "Special Relationship" and Cuban Non-traditional Exports to the United States, 1902 to 1962: A Cautionary Tale - Carmen Diana Deere, University of Florida

• Cuba-US opportunities and its political reef. Some future scenarios - Cristina Escobar

Discussant

• Meylin Pacheco Fernández, Havana University