Legal regulations and agricultural production: the case of Cuba's cattle sector

Mercedes Jaffe and Manfred Zeller

Post-Communist Economies, 2010, vol. 22, issue 4, 531-545

Abstract: The decrease of production in Cuba's cattle sector has been blamed on technical factors, overlooking the role of the institutional set-up of the sector. The objectives of this article are to describe the sector's institutional framework and to compare the performance of different producer types. The three main producer types differ in their access to illegal markets, in the property rights structure for land and cattle, and in their economic and production success. The fact that at least one of the producer types is successful casts doubt on the prevailing idea that production problems are a result of technical problems. The article analyses how the incomplete and insecure property rights regime in Cuba results in low productivity caused by incentive and other problems.

Date: 2010
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14631377.2010.518478 (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:pocoec:v:22:y:2010:i:4:p:531-545

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/CPCE20

DOI: 10.1080/14631377.2010.518478

Access Statistics for this article

Post-Communist Economies is currently edited by Roger Clarke

More articles in Post-Communist Economies from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().