Voices of change in Cuba from the non-state sector / Carmelo Mesa-Lago, in collaboration with Roberto Veiga González, Lenier González Mederos, Sofía Vera Rojas, & Aníbal Pérez-Liñán ; translation from Spanish by Kenya C. Dworkin ; revised by Carmelo Mesa-Lago.

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Mesa-Lago, Carmelo, 1934- [author.]

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TextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Series: Pitt Latin American seriesPublisher: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (xii, 178 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780822983071
0822983079

Uniform titles:

Voces de cambio en el sector no estatal cubano. English

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Voices of change in Cuba from the non-state sector.DDC classification:

335.4097291 23

LOC classification:

HC152.5 .M4713 2018

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Contents:

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

Summary: 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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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.

Translated from the Spanish.

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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