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143 pages : 21 cm Even if you don't know about Cuba, would you like to know how such a small country survived a 50 year trade war against the world's greatest super-power? And how can the economic life of such a secretive regime possibly be verified? Get the answers in this brief and readable tour that exposes Cuba's economy through the eyes of its Caribbean neighbors and its global partners. America's embargo against Cuba has obviously had a broad and serious impact on the island's economy, but nobody has said exactly why it is obvious. We hear that food is rationed and that medicines are scarce, and yet Cuba's life expectancy is just as good as America's. Newspapers report that cars in Cuba are over 50 years old, and yet new hotels welcome thousands of wealthy foreigners each week. The supposedly obvious economic harm of the embargo has never been independently quantified, and nobody knows the overall effect Useful data on Cuba remain scarce, but some fragments are available from government and international agencies. These are standard economic indicators, but they are subject to manipulation so they can only tell part of the story. Because consistent data across the decades do

Author

Joe Atikian

Publisher

[United States?]: [Joe Atikian]; San Bernardino, CA: [CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform]

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781477445914

Subjects

Business, Language Learning, History