Coloquio “Transformación económica en Cuba”

Lunes, 21 de mayo 2012
08:45-18:00 h.

The Graduate Center | Bildner Center
365 Fifth Avenue (@ 34th Street)
New York, NY 10016

El Bildner Center de la Universidad de Nueva York organiza una jornada para debatir sobre las transformaciones de la economía cubana e invita a académicos, profesionales y especialistas en el tema cubano.

After 2008, the newly installed presidency of Raúl Castro launched several initiatives to revamp the highly centralized form of socialism for which Cuba had been known. Though Cuba's Actualización draws from other experiences of socialist reform, it appears to be a distinctive approach. The Cuba Project/Bildner Center colloquium puts the new approach in perspective and provides an update on the evolving policies and the structural and institutional changes in progress in 2012. The colloquium closes with a review of policy and research implications.

*Registration is required.
*This event has been designed for academics, Cuba specialists, and related professionals.

Preliminary Program (Subject to change)

Registration: 8:45 AM - 9:05 AM

Session #1: Cuban Updates on Actualización
9:05 AM to 11:00 AM, Room 9204/05

1. Cuentapropismo y ajuste estructural
Omar Everleny, University of Havana
2. Microfinanzas en Cuba
Pavel Vidal, University of Havana
3. Non-state Enterprises in Cuba: Current Situation and Prospects
Camila Piñeiro, University of Havana
Moderator: Mauricio Font, Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies

Session # 2: Strategic Initiatives: Agriculture
11:10 AM to 1:00 PM, Room 9204/05

1. Measuring Cuba's Agricultural Transformations: Preliminary Findings
Mario González-Corzo, Lehman College, CUNY
2. Lineamientos y producción de alimentos
Armando Nova, University of Havana
3. U.S. Food and Agricultural Exports to Cuba - Uncertain times Ahead
Bill Messina, University of Florida
Moderator: Emily Morris, Economist Intelligence Unit in London

Session # 3: Entrepreneurship and Economic Scenarios
2:00 PM to 3:55 PM, Room 9204/05

1. Actualización in Perspective
Mauricio Font, Bildner Center for Western Hemisphere Studies
2. Cuban Restructuring: The Economic Risks
Emily Morris, Economist Intelligence Unit in London
3. Prospects in a Changing Geo-Economic Environment
Archibald Ritter, Carleton University, Canada

Roundtable on Implications and Future Agenda
4:15 PM to 5:45 PM, Room 9204-05

Results

Publication of a short volume with crisp analyses of each of the areas covered. Each chapter provides a summary of the reforms and changes since 2008.

While some of our panelists will present in Spanish, each panel/session will have Powerpoint outlines in English as well as one presentation in English (with the possible exception of the Panel 1). Moreover, the Q&A will be in both English and Spanish.

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