El crecimiento económico de Cuba republicana (1902-1959). Una revisión y nuevas estimaciones en perspectiva comparada (población, inmigración golondrina, ingreso no azucarero y producto nacional bruto)

Abstract

Until this moment, the available estimations about Cuban GNP indicated a 0 strong stagnation of the income per capita in the period after the crisis of 1930, and a drastic wastege of convergence with regard to the more devolpment economies in Latin America. This one contrast with the comparative performance of other wlfare indicators, which evolved in the same way on the island and in these economies. Our research shows such estimations underestimate the level and groth of the GNP per capita in 1940s and 1950s ought to they used demografic data which do not record all the population settied really in the country and they undervalue the output of the activities less connected with the external sector. To resolve such faults we are calculated a new serie of income of the years 1900-1960. The analisys of this serie shows the aforementioned stagnation and wastege of convergence have been exaggerates, however this one corroborate Cuban economy suffered before the revolution of 1959 serious problems of grouth, fundamentally owing to institutional reasons; because of the consolodation of measurements which were eficaciouses in front of te Great Depression, but they appeared inadequated to solve later situations.