The process of economic reforms in Cuba is continuing. And these are the media adopted by the Governor son of Mayor Calado and in line with the construction of a productive model different from the last 60 years, as it has been marching backwards: the State paper is reducing and increasing the private sector, that has now come to work, because it is called to convert to a salvage table of the economy in these moments of galloping crisis. On Saturday, after years of hope, the authorities announced that it would liberalize the activity of employers and workers by taking into account the majority of economic spheres, eliminating the current restrictive list of 127 jobs that now have to own.
The media was advertised at the time by the economists and received as a “good news” and a “step in the right direction”, although there was a consensus between the Mayor that this decision should be accompanied by the authorization and estimate of the pequeñas and medianas private companies.
The entrepreneur Oniel Díaz Castellanos, founder of Auge, a private consultant created in 2014 in the wake of the impulsive reforms by Raúl Castro in the last decade, and that since six years ago he has been assessing a number of particular negotiations, explains: ” It’s a huge and historic step. Implies a paradigm shift with respect to work on own property. For decades and since its inception, it has always been the subject of a list of occasional activities that are being unveiled, giving in to all that has not been authorized ”.
In 2010, Cuba had 157,000 employees per property. In 2014, the number of Cuban autonomous countries was 478,000, and there are more than 600,000 (13% of the active population) who have a license to own the 127 authorized trades.
With the announced announcement disappears this list and authorizes the autonomous work in about 2,000 activities included in the National Classifier of Economic Activities (CNAE). According to the Minister of Labor and Social Security, Marta Elena Feitó, these are exclusive, partial or total, 124 activities to which the private sector can not be considered by the State of its inclusion, as well as priorities or national security, such as medicine, education, defense or exploitation of natural resources. One of the keys is likely to be the regulation for professionals (architects, lawyers, engineers, etc.), which at the moment can not own private property. This restriction powder mantenerse, because it depends on the dicho by Feitó, although it lacks precision.
All the “negative” list of work on the own account and the specific normative has not been published, and the experts are careful to show the letter. Ricardo Torres, investigating officer at the Cuban Economics Studies Center, said that in addition to the activities that will take place, when selling the regulation should be analyzed as soon as possible as the “positive adjustment, the relationship [de los trabajadores por cuenta propia] with contractors, foreign customers and other sectors of the economy, ”he said, adding that autonomous access to finance sources.
“Obviously, it is a positive note and a step in the right direction,” Torres said, summarizing the sentiment of the Mayor of Economists. The adoption of the National Classifier of Economic Activities as the “vertebral column of this system” is, for the founder of Auge, “an important step, even if it is not sufficient, to give a continuous wave of discretion” with which to operate and there is a charge for the private sector.
As an autonomous person who knows the difficulties that have recently shocked the private sector, Díaz Castellanos considers that if he has a demanding list of authorized workers, “and with a list of prime materials, deficient regulations and economic sanctions” the work by the court However, in the new scenario, the possibilities of doing so are exponentially multiplied, “there is a trend that has not slowed down so that employers are playing a key role in the economy alongside the rest of the players”. And advised Oniel, with a good Cuban dicho, ‘in the authorities:’ La gente se va ‘a poner letal’ proposing something innovative. Prepare the organisms to collect and reach out for the benefit of the country, they are trying to make sure that they have a lot of Cuban, because they are: because they do not create obstacles ”.
Pedro Monreal, another Cuban economist who has since announced the increase in private sector margins, says that now “the advance of reform must prioritize the Pymes, then a mayor will work to increase the productivity of the workforce, Comparison with the lesser probabilities that work has for its own account ”. As such, the Mayor of Analysts considers that the Creation of a “negative list” of activities clarifies the issues and should be common to all private economic actors, including the Pymes and cooperatives which are legalized, a medium that is considered urgent for reactivate the economy.
The Gobierno’s decision to increase the margins of autonomous labor and private employment in delicatessen moments in the island, with a monetary reform march on the ground, brutal debriefing in tithes, no tourism, no liquidation, no more prospects as a result of the GDP in 2020, debit to the coronavirus epidemic, the recovery from the embargo on the Trump embargo and the inefficiency of the state-of-the-art system, at 11% -.
Monetary unification, which has kept inflation and inflation at bay for Cubans, is part of Cuba’s realization process in the real economy, which involves the end of decades of egalitarian policies and subsidies. Hundreds of miles of workers are being reabsorbed now by the private sector, being treated for a life or death issue, so employers like Díaz Castellanos consider that even if they “retrieve” and have no restrictions on work March marches: “Every private sector will be more important in Cuba”.