Race and Inequality in the New Cuba: Reasons, Dynamics, and Manifestations.

CUBAN politics & government; RACE discrimination; PRIVATE sector; ECONOMIC conditions in Cuba; ECONOMIC reform; RECESSIONS; LABOR mobility; INCOME inequality; ECONOMIC models; HISTORY

The article examines the early policies of the Cuban revolutionary government which leveled incomes and offered upward mobility opportunities as of June 2017. Topics include discrimination against Afro-Cubans, the economic collapse in the 1990s and its impact on the country, and Cuba's economic condition. Also discussed are the government's tolerance of the private sector, budget constraints and labor market distortions, structural problems in Cuba's economic model, and the political challenges posed by the economic reform process.