Since 2010 the share of the workforce who are self-employed has soared from 3% to 13%, or more than 600,000 people. Just over a third are women; a third are under 30
The announcement could be designed partly to distract attention from the state’s suppression of dissent. On an island with the fourth-highest official covid-19 infection rate in the world it will be tricky for people to forget that there was enough petrol to power motorcycles, trucks and buses filled with who were sent out to rough up the protesters in July, but not enough for ambulances or incinerators to cremate the dead.
Despite these shackles, enterprising Cubans have flocked to start their own micro-businesses. . They are concentrated in the largest cities, and are most likely to work as taxi-drivers or run restaurants and food kiosks.
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