The Cuban economy in the twenty-first century: recuperation or relapse? / Archibald R.M. Ritter -- Economic and ideological cycles in Cuba: policy and performance, 1959-2002 / Carmelo Mesa-Lago -- Cuban monetary policy: peso, dollar, or euro? / Nicholas Rowe and Ana Julia Yanes Faya -- Exporting processing zones in Cuba / Larry Willmore -- Crisis and reform in Cuba's sugar economy / Brian H. Pollitt -- Cuban agriculture in transition: the impacts of policy changes on agricultural production, food markets, and trade / William A. Messina Jr. -- The taxation of microenterprise / Archibald R.M. Ritter -- Foreign investment in Cuba / Jorge F. Pérez-López -- The Cuban software industry / Luis Casacó -- The macroeconomics of social security finance / María Cristina Sabourin Jovel -- Corruption and the Cuban transition / Jorge F. Pérez-López -- Human resources and development: what to do after the periodo especial? / Francisco Léon.