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      Economic and Social Disparities in Cuba: Recommendations for Change
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      Economic and Social Disparities in Cuba: Recommendations for Change

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      Economic and Social Disparities in Cuba: Recommendations for Change

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      Economic and Social Disparities in Cuba: Recommendations for Change book

      ByCarmelo Mesa-Lago
      BookCuban Communism 1959-2003

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      Edition 11 Edition
      First Published 2003
      Imprint Routledge
      Pages 15
      eBook ISBN 9780203794296
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      ABSTRACT

      Cubans believe that socioeconomic equity was one of the most important accomplishments of the Revolution. The socioeconomic disparities in Cuba, overall macroeconomic reforms must be implemented to increase GDP, output of goods, employment, real wages, government revenue, and satisfaction of basic needs, and to reduce poverty and improve the quality of social services. This chapter discusses the crisis of the Cuba regime's legitimacy partly results from the violation of the principle of equity, which has led to the significant inequalities. It discusses the tax policy, recommendations for changes in social services, coping with racial disparities, introducing a social safety net, and the need for foreign aid. The proper approach would be to reform the tax system completely in order to provide resources needed for market reforms, including the implementation of a social safety net and other social changes. The tax policies transform the free provision of social services and subsidies to rationed goods by taking income into account.

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