SELF-EMPLOYMENT IN CUBA

Since 2010, the year when self-employment was boosted in Cuba, the number of self-employed workers has increased threefold.»

Cuban government announced some measures to keep order, discipline, and legality in the development of self-employment, a kind of non-state job fostered in the country since October 2010.»

Self-employment has had a positive impact on Sancti Spiritus’s socio-economic spheres. Over 7 000 new jobs have been provided, tax revenues have been largely increased, while products and services are diverse.»

Self-employment, an option recently eased by the Cuban state as part of the economic restructuring undertaken in the island, is exercised at present by over 15 740 residents in the country’s central province, Sancti Spiritus.»

by Enrique Ojito Linares The 34 300 000 pesos added to the state budget during the first 10 months in Sancti Spiritus province, via tributary obligations, confirmed the great impact of the flexibilization and widening of the non-state sector in Cuba’s economy one year after these new regulations were put in force.»