Cuba Transition Project: Socio-Economic Reconstruction: Suggestions and Recommendations for Post-Castro Era

摘要

The process of transforming a totalitarian and collectivistic society into a democratic and market-oriented one is long and complicated. The conversion from one into the other involves manifold political, social, and economic aspects that interact in diverse and changing patterns, often in unpredictable ways. It is impossible to lay out in detail prospective paths and policymaking packages, especially those of a concrete and immediate nature. Experience teaches that they must be formulated on the strength of empirical and casuistic information.