{"title":"The population of Cuba","authors":"Lisandro Pérez","doi":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90036-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90036-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Cuba is a country with a demographic profile that resembles the situation of more developed nations: birth and death rates are low, life expectancy is high, the proportion of the population in working ages is also high, and the number of elderly persons is expanding rapidly. Cuba also has an educated population and a universal public education system. This paper analyzes Cuba's current demographic picture, and emphasizes the characteristics of its labor force that will influence dynamic change. Overall, the contribution of the labor force to the development of a market economy is likely to be positive, given its low dependency ratio, the high level of education, and the value placed on entrepreneurship.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"30 1","pages":"Pages 58-65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0022-5428(95)90036-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"22029842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mexico's devaluation","authors":"Michael Adler","doi":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90040-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90040-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Mexico's December 1994 peso crisis still has North America reeling from the shock. The U.S. $20 billion bailout package has helped to pay-off Mexico's short-term debt and stabilize its markets, but will do little for the structural problems that exist in the Mexican economy. Adler evaluates the causes of the crisis, presents four economic scenarios for the next year, and discusses alternatives to Mexico's present banking system: instituting a currency board or following Chile's central banking model. While Adler does not believe that Mexico needs a currency board, he makes the point that its policies must become more transparent if portfolio capital flows are to recover. This would be helped by a more formal international safety net.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"30 1","pages":"Pages 112-120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0022-5428(95)90040-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53337747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Are economic reforms propelling Cuba to the market?","authors":"Michael Adler","doi":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90043-8","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90043-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"30 1","pages":"Pages 126-128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0022-5428(95)90043-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"95679078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tourism development in transition economies","authors":"Françoise L. Simon","doi":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90033-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90033-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>From Vietnam to Hungary, countries in various stages of transition from central planning to market economies are turning to tourism as an important component of their national industry portfolios. Cuba is no exception. Tourism has the potential to be one of Cuba's most lucrative sectors. Simon discusses the impact of this growing sector on Cuba's structural and economic development, the foreign investment tourism has garnered and what it requires for the future.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"30 1","pages":"Pages 26-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0022-5428(95)90033-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53337684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Environmental product standards, trade and European consumer goods marketing","authors":"Barry N. Rosen , George B. Sloane III","doi":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90038-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90038-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Recent developments in the European Union (EU) threaten to utilize environmental standards to control internal and external trade in consumer products. Marketers who do not conform may be restricted from participation. Meanwhile, those marketers who do meet the requirements enjoy the benefits of reduced competition and growing market share. This paper identifies and explains the internal and external trade implications of environmental standards in the EU. Companies are advised to take the offense in the environmental standards development process but to avoid using aggressive claims in promotion until standards emerge.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"30 1","pages":"Pages 74-86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0022-5428(95)90038-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53337721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investing in financial markets of east and Central Europe","authors":"Marek Lorinc","doi":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90039-X","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90039-X","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The emerging financial markets in East and Central Europe have developed rapidly in the last five years particularly in Poland, Hungary, and the former Czechoslovakia (the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic). Marek Lorinc, a Slovak native, gives an overview of the current status and latest information on the stock, bond, money and over-the-counter equity markets in these countries with the interests of potential investors in mind.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"30 1","pages":"Pages 88-111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0022-5428(95)90039-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53337735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cuba at a crossroads: Politics and economics after the fourth party congress","authors":"Anna Szterenfeld","doi":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90042-X","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90042-X","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"30 1","pages":"Pages 124-125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0022-5428(95)90042-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53337769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cuba's second economy: From behind the scenes to center stage","authors":"Marifeli Perez-Stable","doi":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90041-1","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90041-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"30 1","pages":"Pages 123-124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0022-5428(95)90041-1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53337755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investment funds in Cuba","authors":"Gareth Jenkins","doi":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90034-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90034-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Although reeling under the effects of a massive economic collapse since 1990, and still isolated from the United States economy, Cuba has begun to attract the interest of foreign investors. The tourism sector was the first to attract investment, and has been joined by oil and minerals, agribusiness, telecommunications, construction materials and even consumer products. New fund managers are getting involved. Already the first investment management company focusing exclusively on Cuba has already been announced. perhaps it is not too far-fetched to envisage Fidel Castro opening a Havana stock exchange before the end of 1997.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"30 1","pages":"Pages 42-48"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0022-5428(95)90034-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"53337695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cuba's telecommunications market","authors":"Lila Haines","doi":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90035-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/0022-5428(95)90035-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Two significant steps were taken in 1994 towards putting Cuba on line: the Castro government's partial privatization of its national telecoms enterprise and the lifting of the United States embargo on long distance telecommunications with Cuba. Both have far-reaching implications. Politically they could erode the hardline stance so far taken by both administrations. And the expected modernization of its ancient telecommunications system should make Cuba a more attractive investment target.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":85674,"journal":{"name":"The Columbia journal of world business","volume":"30 1","pages":"Pages 50-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1995-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/0022-5428(95)90035-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"106716579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}