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Cuba after Castro : legacies, challenges, and impediments / Edward Gonzalez, Kevin F. McCarthy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gonzalez, Edward.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social problems--Cuba--History--20th century.
- Social problems.
- Economic forecasting--Cuba.
- Economic forecasting.
- Cuba--Politics and government--1959-.
- Cuba.
- Cuba--Social conditions--1959-.
- Cuba--Economic conditions--1990-.
- Cuba--Forecasting.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (153 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- When the end of the Castro era arrives, the successor government and the Cuban people will need to answer certain questions: How is Castro?s more than four-decade rule likely to affect a post-Castro Cuba? What will be the political, social, and economic challenges Cuba will confront? What are the impediments to Cuba?s economic development and democratic transition? The authors examine Castro?s political legacies, Cuba?s generational and racial divisions, its demographic predicament, the legacy of a centralized economy,and the need for industrial restructuring.
- Contents:
- Political legacies, social challenges.
- Castro's political legacies : Caudilloism and totalitarianism
- Cuba's disaffected youth
- Cuba's racial divide
- The structural challenges ahead.
- Cuba's changing demographic structure
- The institutional legacy of a centralized economy
- The need for industrial restructuring.
- Notes:
- "MG-111."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-45133-2
- 9786612451331
- 0-8330-3617-3
- OCLC:
- 55204143
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