Edging Towards Capitalism: The Economy  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 402 no. 8777 (Mar. 2012), page SS7-SS9.
Topik: Small Business; Regulation; Economic Policy; Politics; Capitalism

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Gisela Nicolas and two of her friends wanted to set up an events-catering company, but that is not one of the 181 activities on the approved list for those who work por cuenta propia ("on their own account"), so in May 2011 they opened a restaurant called La Galeria. With 50 covers, it is a fairly ambitious business by Havana standards. They have rented a large house in Vedado and hired a top chef and 13 other staff who are paid two to three times the average wage, plus tips. The customers are mainly foreign businesspeople and diplomats, Cuban artists and musicians and visiting Cuban-Americans. Across Cuba small businesses are proliferating. Most are on a more modest scale than La Galeria. The streets around Havana's Parque Central heave with vendors hawking snacks and tourist trinkets. Many of them are teachers, accountants and doctors who have left their jobs for a more lucrative, if precarious, life in the private sector. This cuentapropismo is only the most visible part of Raul Castro's reform plan. "The fundamental issue in Cuba is production," says Omar Everleny, a reformist economist. "Prices are high and wages are low because we don't produce enough."

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