{"id":210194,"date":"2019-12-04T09:29:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T14:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=210194"},"modified":"2019-12-04T09:29:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T14:29:40","slug":"cuban-entrepreneurs-and-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/opinion\/columns\/counterbalance\/cuban-entrepreneurs-and-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban entrepreneurs and development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was more than the whole paragraph under the headline of <em>Granma<\/em> that caught my attention. The headline said, \u201c<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.granma.cu\/cuba\/2019-11-21\/toda-la-atencion-en-como-lograr-que-el-empresariado-cubano-proyecte-el-desarrollo-21-11-2019-00-11-53\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Toda la atenci\u00f3n en c\u00f3mo lograr que el empresariado cubano proyecte el desarrollo<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d (Full attention on how to get Cuban entrepreneurs to project development). Under the headline the subheading says: \u201cWe need less bureaucracy, more agility and more entrepreneurship. We must definitely strengthen the state enterprise and incorporate the private sector into export projects.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Strengthen the state enterprise&#8230;. I confess that I haven\u2019t seen the list of the 28 measures that seek to strengthen the state enterprise. There has been talk about them, but I at least haven\u2019t been able to see them all together, I even looked in the website of the Implementation Commission, <em>Cubacrece<\/em>, but I didn\u2019t find them, perhaps because my analogical heritage is so strong that it doesn&#8217;t allow me to achieve all the skill required today to search on the web. I asked other friends and they hadn&#8217;t managed to find them either. Thanks to the Granma article mentioned this Monday, we know that work is underway on ten other measures on the distribution of state enterprises\u2019 profits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is always striking that measures that the State as a representative of the owner (the people) puts into practice so that the owner&#8217;s enterprises improve their management haven\u2019t yet been published, so that all owners know them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We also know from this article that these measures \u201chave not progressed as quickly as necessary\u201d in the business sector, that no enterprise has managed to apply more than one, \u201cwhich shows the low capacity of reaction of entrepreneurs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How is it possible that Cuban entrepreneurs have not identified what these measures offer them and have redesigned their enterprises to take advantage of them, produce and sell and export more?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is possible to list a group of problems that were addressed at the meeting of the Government Board Meetings and appear in that article:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> access to foreign currencies.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> centralized allocation of energy carriers and raw materials.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> regulations on wholesale prices, which do not allow producers to receive adequate signals from the market.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> gaps that persist in planning, which greatly affect business management.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> limited presentation of projects to gain access to credits.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> low operations reported in the Mariel Special Development Zone.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> delay in the preparation and approval of legal norms.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> insufficient dissemination and training.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> no application of more than one measure by the same entity.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have we changed everything that needs to be changed? Obviously not. We will have to keep changing, we will have to carry out deep surgery in some cases, I am convinced of this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A colleague, whom I respect a lot, recalled a few days ago that the features that define Cuba&#8217;s economic model had been identified and expressed in the document <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/conceptualizacion-del-modelo-economico-social-version-final\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conceptualization of the economic model.\u2026<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Well, in that same document the socialist-owned business entities of all the people is one of the two types of entities that are defined, in the other there are the budgeted units (number 137). Then, in the Constitution of the Republic, article 27 states:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe socialist state enterprise is the main subject of the national economy. It has autonomy in its administration and management; it plays the main role in the production of goods and services and fulfills its social responsibilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The law regulates the principles of organization and operation of the socialist state enterprise.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then perhaps one of the issues in which time should be put in is in defining what to understand by \u201cbusiness autonomy\u201d for the fundamental means of production [1] that are in the hands of the State and that the regulations and norms, as well as the relations between enterprises and their ministries, stand by it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Perhaps if that definition is achieved then we could save ourselves a few more measures, because we wouldn\u2019t have to be telling the enterprise and the entrepreneur, from time to time, what they can and can\u2019t do.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The measures that were 28 in short will be 38 and it is very likely that in two months they will be more because the road will have to be cleared, something that speaks in favor of the effort and commitment to the transformation, but that also takes time, which is frequently too scarce.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, it is stated in the same article that \u201cwork is underway on measures related to fiscal incentives to encourage exports.\u201d We are still waiting for fiscal incentives to encourage exports with our great need to export&#8230;! It seems that entrepreneurs are not the only ones who should start waking up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The other part of that headline that caught my attention was the call to incorporate the private sector into export projects. As far as I know, there is only one cooperative project that was able to reach an agreement for the export of toys, and it\u2019s good that we have at least one! But how bad that it\u2019s only one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I don\u2019t know of any national private \u201cbusiness\u201d incorporated into export projects, at least officially. Although undoubtedly there are more than one national small private enterprise that is exporting today, some in their traveling luggage and others through the social media, in the form of programs and software for international enterprises. The country loses out in exporting with the Cuba brand and the treasury in obtaining income.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I again repeat one of Perogrullo\u2019s truths: to export something you must first produce it. The type of trades the private sector in Cuba is allowed does not help that incorporation much.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although there are exceptions, with unstable trades exercised privately, it is very difficult to achieve quality goods and services that can be internationally competitive. That\u2019s the first thing. The famous negative list instead of a positive list could be a substitute for the absence of a Law on Enterprises that includes this sector. [2]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The second would be to make these small enterprises legal entities and then create fiscal, credit and exchange incentives to encourage these small private exporting enterprises or encourage them to be part of a productive chain that has the ultimate goal of exporting or linking to an international value chain and producing for the world market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But first they would have to exist as legal entities, with duties, and also with recognized rights that would give them certainty and remove them from that gray area in which they operate today. Is this possible to do? Yes, it\u2019s possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, let\u2019s remember that today the state enterprises that are the ones that decide the game, require that they be granted \u201cexport capacity,\u201d something that apparently is not very easy. How can the private sector that does not have \u201cexport capacity\u201d export? Will it be assigned a state exporting enterprise? Will the latter guarantee \u201cefficient management\u201d for that small non-state client?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To export it is also necessary to have inputs. Will the private sector have access to buy supplies at wholesale prices or should it export based on buying supplies at retail prices or in a gray\/black market with inflated prices? Can the private sector import today? Will it be assigned a national importer; will it be allowed to choose it or to import directly? The efficiency of importing enterprises is essential to reduce export costs and improve their competitiveness, it is something that remains one of our economy\u2019s subject to be approved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How to hire the services of a freight forwarder if it doesn\u2019t have legal recognition to do so?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It will also need to insure its product. How can it do so if it\u2019s not a legal entity?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And in case of discrepancies with the client. How to go about an arbitration process?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the credit facilities? Today there is no Export Credit Program in the Cuban banking system that I know of and I am convinced that there is no credit program for the small exporter. Is this possible to do? Yes, it\u2019s possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In article 22 of Title 2 of our Constitution, after explaining the different forms of ownership that are constitutionally recognized, the following is expressed:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAll forms of ownership over the means of production interact in similar conditions; the State regulates and controls the way they contribute to economic and social development.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Achieving that these conditions bring about better economic results and greater well-being is decisive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is still much work to be done to achieve what the norm establishes. But it has to be done and it can be done.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Notes:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[1] Those that play a strategic role in the country\u2019s economic and social development, vitality, sustainability and national security. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/conceptualizacion-del-modelo-economico-social-version-final\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conceptualization of the socialist development economic and social model. <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Number 125.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[2] I remember that foreign investors have the right to invest in any sector of the national economy, are they by chance less private?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was more than the whole paragraph under the headline of Granma that caught my attention. 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