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Sme Development In Cuba

DISSERTATION PROPOSAL NAME: Clemente Berríos, Jr.___________

INSTITUTION: University of Pécs______________
Faculty of Business and Economics
International Ph.D. Program______

DATE: 15 April 2005_________________

SIGNATURE: / Original Signed / PROFESSOR: Dr. László Szerb_______________

TITLE: Small & Medium Business Development Policy of the Post-Socialist States of Central and Eastern Europe in their Transition to an Open Market Economy: Lessons and Applications for Cuba.

PROFESSOR COMMENTS:

Berrios, C. 1
DISSERTATION PROPOSAL

1. Title of Dissertation:
Small & Medium Business Development Policy of the Post-Socialist States of Central and Eastern Europe in their Transition to an Open Market Economy: Lessons and Applications for Cuba.
2. Aim of Dissertation & Motivation for Research:
The objective of this dissertation is to study the small and medium business policies developed in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) as a result of their transition to an open market economy. The experience gained from the extraordinary process of transition, still under way in CEE and in the former Soviet Union (FSU), is rich with lessons that could guide policy making and action in a Cuba of the future. This dissertation attempts to distill some of these lessons and to explore those, which would facilitate the growth of small and medium size enterprises, the so-called SMEs, when transition finally unfolds in the island.
Many years after the initiation of transition in the former command economies of CEE and the FSU, one thing is certain: the process of transformation is far more complex and it takes far more time and resources than envisioned in 1989. The reason...