Five Steps to Grow the Cuban Economy – What the United States and Cuba Can Do in Obama’s Final Year

A Conversation With:
Carlos Gutierrez
Chair, 
Albright Stonebridge Group;
Former US Secretary of Commerce

Michael Klein
Professor
Tufts University; 
Former Chief Economist in the Office of International Affairs 
US Department of Treasury

Moderated By:
Peter Schechter
Director, Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center
Atlantic Council
 

When President Obama travels to Cuba on March 21, he will see a private sector on the rise but still held back by US and Cuban restrictions. What else can be done? One critical step to improve peoples’ livelihoods: get in place a working financial system. Without the right financial development, the Cuban people will miss out on the country’s new international insertion. 

How can President Obama and the Cubans help to tackle the country’s five top financial and monetary priorities? Why is this important for the United States, and how can institutions like the Inter-American Development Bank help?

Join us by conference call for the launch of “Five Steps to Grow the Cuban Economy – What the United States and Cuba Can Do in Obama’s Final Year,” written by former Treasury Department Chief Economist Michael Klein and Cuban Economist Pavel Vidal.