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Diapers appear and disappear at stores like many other products. The difference is that this is an essential product. In addition, there price (up to one dollar per diaper) is prohibitive for any person living on an average salary.<\/p>\n
The fact of the matter is that, today, one has to do a lot of legwork to purchase diapers, visit different stores because they don\u2019t always carry the size you need and, sometimes, they don\u2019t carry any diapers at all. So people also need money to hoard up on diapers (the more the better) when these turn up.<\/p>\n
If the Cuban government hopes to bring up the country\u2019s birth rate and continue to extend the life expectancy of the elderly, it should understand that solving the diaper problem is far more strategically important than television campaigns.<\/p>\n
A government directive calls for \u201capplying all fiscal and price policies that will favor a higher birth rate and improved care for the elderly.\u201d They could start by exonerating diapers from the 240{bb302c39ef77509544c7d3ea992cb94710211e0fa5985a4a3940706d9b0380de} mark-up on products at their hard currency stores.<\/p>\n
The government could even make a certain number of diapers available to families with elderly members or newborns at cost, a measure which would profit from the hastening of negotiations with the Vietnamese company that wants to set up a diaper factory in the town of Mariel.<\/p>\n
We must bear in mind that life expectancy in Cuba today leads to situations in which elderly people are forced to care for their even more elderly parents. These people, who can be between the ages of 60 and 70, face physical limitations themselves and need society\u2019s help.<\/p>\n
From a strictly economic point of view, it is also good business. Cuban families are so united that, if they were given the resources to look after their elders, less of them would end up in homes.<\/p>\n
Young Cuban women want to have better living conditions before giving birth, as Cuba\u2019s low birth rate demonstrates. The situation leads society to a dead-end, as there are less and less people working and more and more retired persons receiving pensions.<\/p>\n
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