🌎 Latin America Nov 5, 2014 · admin

Double Trouble: Currency Unification in Cuba

Americas Quarterly
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Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter nearly 20 years, the dual currency system enacted by Cuba to help mitigate the economic shock from the collapse of the Soviet Union is set to be retired. As part of the government’s efforts to develop the country’s socialist economy, the Cuban government recently announced that it would unify its complicated currency system.
In practice, the dual currency system has meant the simultaneous circulation of two domestic currencies: Cuban Pesos (CUP) and Convertible Cub

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