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NEITHER BEIJING NOR HANOI BUT A CUBAN MARKET SOCIALISM?
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The recently announced 'updating' of the Cuban socialist model, a euphemism for what is in reality a shift towards a policy of 'market socialism', has logically raised the supposition on the part of some commentators that Havana is copying the Chinese or Vietnamese model of development. This article derives from an examination of studies of both the Chinese and Vietnamese economic reform processes and compares them with the Cuban example. It concludes that while the Cuban market socialist project has undoubtedly been informed by a study of their Asian counterparts and inevitably resembles them in some aspects, there are so many differences between each country's social, economic, geographic and historical characteristics, context and experience, that the Cuban model, forged out of its own circumstances and praxis, is potentially a new and unique form.
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