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Voices of Change in Cuba from the Non-State Sector
Contributor(s): Mesa-Lago, Carmelo (Editor)

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 ISBN: 0822965097     ISBN-13: 9780822965091
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
OUR PRICE: $42.75  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: April 2018
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Caribbean & West Indies - Cuba
- Business & Economics | Government & Business
- Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism
Dewey: 335.409
LCCN: 2018288547
Series: Pitt Latin American
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 9.1" L (0.70 lbs) 176 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product
Review Citations: Choice 10/01/2018
 
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Publisher Description:
More than one million Cubans, representing 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 Ra l Castro since becoming Cuba's leader in 2006, and may become the most dynamic economic force for the country's future. Despite this phenomenon, little has been published about the demographic makeup of this group (age, gender, race, and education), as well as their economic conditions and aspirations.
Based on eighty in-depth interviews recently conducted in Cuba, this book captures actual voices from this evolving economic sector. It 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. As such, the book offers fascinating insights into today's Cuban economy from the nonstate sector, while also reflecting on its potential for development and the obstacles it faces.
 
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