Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Cuba's public sector job cuts

In the absence of perhaps the most obvious signs of economic change is gathering pace in Cuba, the Government plans job cuts, expected from the public sector has more than 50 million people, they will enter the private sector, the Cuban Federation of Labour said yesterday.

In the past few months, President Raul Castro to the Cuban economy needs radical reform, the workers began a stern warning. As many as 1 million more than the national wage, Castro said that the Government is supporting a bloated bureaucracy have been reduced motivation and long-term asylum countries, a large number of workers bands.
"We must never erase the notion that Cuba is the only country that can live without work," he told Congress last month.

As the long-term from his brother Fidel Castro two years ago, Castro promised the Cuban often concentrated, Soviet-style economy more efficient and open up opportunities for people. The Government has handed over thousands of acres of farmland and state-holding farmers, began to open to the private sector on agricultural market. It relaxed cell phones and other electronic products, restrictions on private enterprises created in some regions, so that barber shop, a cooperative, and to give more licenses to private taxi driver.

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