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The Impact Of Cuba

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Cuba’s gross domestic product ,GDP grew by 1.3% in 2014, down from 2.7% in 2013. This performance reflected real-term falls in both exports and imports of goods and services and, to a lesser extent, in government consumption. Positive growth in both investment ,although at a rate lower than planned, and private consumption, however, helped to boost GDP. GDP growth of 4% is forecast for 2015, chiefly on the back of a rise of over 20% in domestic investment. This would be similar to the level seen in 2008 and the highest in five years. To improve investment implementation, something that had suffered from organizational deficiencies in previous years because of an inadequate legislative basis, the government applied the general standards and …show more content…

However, the year is estimated to have ended with a fiscal deficit of 4.1% of GDP. The priorities of the 2014 budget included support for farming and increased spending on budgeted activities. The subsidy designed to ensure local availability of food such as rice,beans, pork, milk and sugar, among other things by promoting import substitution thus increased by 44.6% between 2013 and 2014. Meanwhile, spending on budgetary units rose by 5% on 2013 levels, with growth of 2.5% expected in 2015. The decentralization process also continues, with the aim of giving local governments fiscal autonomy. To this end, in 2015 the property tax for local development will start applying to all municipalities . In 2015, tax raised from own-account workers and non-agricultural cooperatives, along with agricultural producers, is projected to increase by 12% from 2014, thus accounting for 5% of gross revenue and 7% of overall tax revenue. , resources in the amount of 50 million pesos have been set aside since the 2014 budget for a fund to stimulate production development. In particular, this fund is intended to stimulate the production and services sector, which also encompasses non-agricultural cooperatives. (b) Monetary policy The announcement of monetary

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