| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 178 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Pitt Latin American Series
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Pitt Latin American series.
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| Note |
Originally published as Voces de Cambio en el Sector No-Estatal Cubano: (Madrid : Editorial Iberoamericana Vervuert), 2016--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-164) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
Translated from the Spanish. |
| Subject |
Cuba -- Economic conditions -- 1990-
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Cuba. |
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Economic conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
1990- |
| Subject |
Cuba -- Commerce.
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Commerce. |
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Cuba -- Economic policy.
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Economic policy. |
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Mixed economy -- Cuba.
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Mixed economy. |
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Cooperative societies -- Cuba.
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Cooperative societies. |
| Chronological Term |
Since 1990 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Veiga González, Roberto, author.
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González Mederos, Lenier, author.
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Dworkin y Méndez, Kenya, translator.
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| Added Title |
Voces de cambio en el sector no estatal cubano. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2018135247
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mesa-Lago, Carmelo, 1934- Voces de cambio en el sector no estatal cubano. English. Voices of change in Cuba from the non-state sector. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018] 9780822965091 (DLC) 2018288547 (OCoLC)989045154 |
| ISBN |
9780822983071 (electronic book) |
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0822983079 (electronic book) |
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9780822965091 (paperback) |
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0822965097 (paperback) |
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