Los giros del comercio exterior y la inversión extranjera directa en Cuba / The turns of foreign trade and direct foreign investment in cuba

Abstract

Cuban economy has a high dependence on foreign trade. In this way, Cuban economy is very vulnerable to changes occurring in the international economy. The changes in domestic economic policy and in the international economic have a great influence in the structure of the trade balance and the positioning of the various products and services in the composition of exports and imports that Cuba needs for economic development. Hence, external financing and the foreign direct investment have become in the urgent necessity in the development plans of the Cuban economy.