This issue of Cuba Economic Review opens with Quick Takes: Cuba’s renewed bid for full BRICS membership, rebuffed once again; the withdrawal of its lawyers from the London lawsuit brought by the CRF I Limited fund; and a new Land Law, which gives farmers more flexibility without changing state ownership of the land. In By the Numbers, we look at what could be Cuba’s worst economic contraction in three decades, as inflation accelerates again. In Deep examines the package of four decree-laws — on the private sector, state enterprises, foreign investment, and usufruct — published in the Official Gazette in early September. We close with Recommended Readings and the Harvard Working Group’s report on Cuba’s future, which brings together economists, dissidents, and a former U.S. diplomat, and concludes there is no way out of the crisis without political changes led by the Cuban government itself.
