Economy & Business - April 2012 (ISSN 1741-7430)

On 4 April the vice president of the council of ministers and Cuba’s economic policy czar, Marino Murillo, said that the council had approved in its most recent meeting on 31 March a new policy for “the experimental creation of cooperatives outside the agriculture sector”, as part of the package of 300 economic reforms approved a year ago at the Sixth Communist Party congress.