Caribbean & Central America - January 2013 (ISSN 1741-4458)

The regular end-year sessions of the Cuban National Assembly and Council of Ministers confirmed the government’s focus on its economic reform programme, and revealed its objectives and expectations for 2013. By now, there is no doubt about the extent and significance of the reform process, which is following the guidelines (‘lineamientos’) agreed in April 2011 that form the basis for policy to 2016. The state sector is shrinking and will continue to do so, and the non-state sector will expand further as legal restrictions, as well as financing constraints and ideological resistance, are steadily removed.

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