Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 178 pages)
ISBN:
0822983079
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9780822983071
Series Statement:
Pitt Latin American Series
Content:
The Emerging Nonstate Sector and Its Importance -- Self-Employed Workers -- Usufruct Farmers -- Members of Nonagricultural and Service Cooperatives -- Buying and Selling Dwellings -- Comparisons, Conclusions, and Suggestions
Content:
Based on eighty interviews recently conducted in Cuba, this book captures actual voices from this evolving economic sector. Thirty percent of the country's labor force currently make up the nonstate sector. These include self-employed workers and micro-entrepreneurs, sharecropping farmers, members of new cooperatives, and buyers and sellers of private dwellings. This development represents a crucial structural reform implemented by Raúl Castro since becoming Cuba's leader in 2006, and may become the most dynamic economic force for the country's future. The book details workers' level of satisfaction with what they do and earn, profits (and how they are allocated between consumption and investment), plans to expand their activities, receiving foreign remittances and microcredit, competition, forms of advertising, and payment of taxes. Perhaps most revealing are the speakers' views on the obstacles they face and their desires for change and improvement
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-164) and index
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Originally published as Voces de Cambio en el Sector No-Estatal Cubano: (Madrid : Editorial Iberoamericana Vervuert), 2016--Title page verso
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0822965097
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0822983079
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Mesa-Lago, Carmelo, 1934- Voices of change in Cuba from the non-state sector Pittsburgh, Pa : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]
Language:
English
Keywords:
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