The Cuban Sugar Economy: Collapse, Reform and Prospects for Recovery
The Cuban Sugar Economy: Collapse, Reform and Prospects for Recovery
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古巴糖业经济：崩溃、改革和复苏前景
DOI：
10.1017/s0022216x96004671
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发表时间：
1997
影响因子：
1.1
通讯作者：
B. Pollitt
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作者：
B. Pollitt
在 COMECON 和苏联解体的背景下分析了 20 世纪 90 年代古巴进口密集型食糖经济的崩溃。革命后甘蔗种植的显着特征与 20 世纪 50 年代形成鲜明对比。将 20 世纪 90 年代的生产下降以及对此的主要机构反应与 1930 年代大萧条时期的情况进行了比较。该分析以 1994 年及之前进行的实地调查中收集的主要数据进行说明。概述了当前从进口密集度较高的农业实践到进口密集度较低的农业实践的“技术倒退”的复杂性，并评估了严重的国家投资限制对食糖经济复苏前景的影响。
The collapse of Cuba's import-intensive sugar economy in the 1990s is analysed in the context of the disintegration of COMECON and of the USSR. Salient features of post-revolutionary cane farming are contrasted with those of the 1950s. Falling production in the 1990s, and the main institutional responses to it, are compared with those of the Great Depression of the 1930s. The analysis is illustrated with primary data collected in fieldwork carried out in 1994 and before. The complexities of current ‘technical regression’ from more to less import-intensive agricultural practices are outlined and the impact of acute national investment constraints upon the recovery prospects of the sugar economy are appraised.