By: Arnaldo Ramos Lauzurique
The guidelines of the Sixth Congress of the PCC the Self-Employment seems to be the panacea that will solve the huge army of unemployed that will generate the dismissal of one and half million surplus in the state sector and presumably contribute to the growth of the economy.
Legal private management including agriculture now occupies 17% of workers (one in six) and creates 11% of the country's income. It is intended that by 2015 more than occupy 50% and generates almost half of the income, so that these workers must increase their productivity by about 50%.
productive That leap has no real basis, taking into account that the industry does not have adequate technical materials, such as machinery, tools, input markets and wholesale goods imported materials, as well as local currency financing and foreign exchange. Confronts also limitations to hire labor and is subject to a tax system that prevents prosperity.
only 178 activities have been established, many of them frankly too narrowly focused and other parasitic diseases, such as travel manager or buquenque ", which gets much higher income to a university.
Not considered the self-employed professionals such as architects, engineers, doctors, veterinarians, economists and others nor qualified technicians, producers of satellite dishes, computer repair technicians and other equipment electronic, nurses, etc., as well as other useful and necessary, as is the private collection and wholesale of agricultural products and the enormous range of occupations, impossible to pick from a list.
This will only dig a phenomenon already present in Cuban society is the inversion of the social pyramid, which is that highly competent professionals and technicians receive much lower income people less qualified than move in the economy's representative, which is precisely what distinguishes the informal economy in Cuba from the rest of the world where this is usually low incomes.
Only a fifth of the approved occupations correspond to the generation of goods and services, such as food production, manufacturing, transportation, construction or trade, consisting of 80% of services to the population which does not correspond to the structure of employment that require the objectives sought.
So far over 70 thousand new approved self-employed people are retired and were not related to employment, so still need to be incorporated which will unemployed, a process that is stalled for various reasons, including the disruption in discipline at all levels.
addition to the restrictions officially established, there is resistance in the lower courts of the state apparatus to implement the governed, which is depressing building activity, which has been seen in the information and complaints reflected in the press and especially in popular commentaries.
Together with this has been producing an association of self-employment and illegal activities with a blind eye to the authorities, to be sold in that market, evidently stolen items to the state sector, which is not a real increase in Gross Domestic Product.
The main conclusion to be drawn is that after more than 45 days a year, the process must be extended by the first quarter of 2011, is being held and social environment shows signs of crisis, is looming as the failure of this process, indicating that without a strong economic freedom, and with it the unlimited expansion of the private sector, with businesses of all sizes, you can not resolve the current situation, which tend to worsen .
Havana, February 21, 2011.
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