Post-embargo Cuba: Economic Implications and the Future of Socialism
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Within recent years there has been growing debate among scholars about the possibility for normalizing trade relations between Cuba and the United States. This debate has increased within the past ten years after Cuba began instigating several watershed changes within its macroeconomic policy framework, with numerous liberalization measures. This paper will attempt to analyze the socio-economic implications of lifting the United States embargo on Cuba, particularly in the area of maintaining Cuba’s wide-spread social welfare programs such as free education and health care. I provide several measures in order for the island to maintain these programs, as well as the promotion of economic stability in conjunction with open market policies and exchange rate adjustments.
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تاریخ انتشار 2004