In 1963 Cuba launched a program to develop its economy by expanding its sugar production and export trade. Cuban economists believed that through intensive development of this leading sector, they could generate capital to invest in manufacturing and thus move away from a one-crop economy.
After providing background information on Cuba's prerevolutionary economy, Brunner explores the effects of Communist ideology and the U.S. embargo on the country's resources and trade, and analyzes the problems Cuba faced in shifting from trade with the U.S. to trade with the Soviet Union and Soviet bloc. He evaluates their implementation of the development plan, assessing the sugar industry within Cuba as well as how its accelerated development affected the rest of the domestic economy.
- ISBN10 0822984601
- ISBN13 9780822984603
- Publish Date 15 March 1977 (first published 1 January 1977)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 6 November 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Pittsburgh Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 176
- Language English