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@ Brookings Podcast: Economic Reform in Cuba

Content from the Brookings Doha Center is now archived. In September 2021, after 14 years of impactful partnership, Brookings and the Brookings Doha Center announced that they were ending their affiliation. The Brookings Doha Center is now the Middle East Council on Global Affairs, a separate public policy institution based in Qatar.

Under the leadership of Raul Castro, Cuba has been making increasing economic reforms, aiming for greater participation in the global economy. Senior Fellow Ted Piccone says Raul Castro is following a path toward “socialized capitalism,” along the lines of reforms taken in communist Vietnam and China.