TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mesa-Lago,Carmelo
AU  - Veiga González,Roberto
AU  - González Mederos,Lenier
AU  - Dworkin,Kenya C.
TI  - Voices of change in Cuba from the non-state sector
T2  - Pitt Latin American Series
SN  - 9780822983071
AV  - HC152.5 .M4713 2018
U1  - 335.4097291 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Pittsburgh, Pa.
PB  - University of Pittsburgh Press
KW  - Mixed economy
KW  - Cuba
KW  - Cooperative societies
KW  - Économie mixte
KW  - Coopératives
KW  - 15.85 history of America
KW  - bcl
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Political Ideologies
KW  - Communism & Socialism
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Government & Business
KW  - Commerce
KW  - fast
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Economic policy
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - 1990-
KW  - Conditions économiques
KW  - Politique économique
KW  - gtt
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Originally published as Voces de Cambio en el Sector No-Estatal Cubano: (Madrid : Editorial Iberoamericana Vervuert), 2016--Title page verso; Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-164) and index; 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
N2  - 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
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ER  -