Cuba's Development
- Created by: Beth Ismay
- Created on: 05-03-15 23:33
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- Nationalised property also included the extensive land holdings of the
Roman Catholic Church. This resulted in
the expulsion of the Cuban bishop and hundreds of the clergy
- Cuba's Development
- Between
1971-71, productivity increased by 20%.
The efforts to systemise economic production combined with the merit
system resulted in a significant rise in the GDP from 3.9% to 10% annually
- Subsidies from the Soviet Union played a large role in funding many of these ventures
- Thousands of new doctors (mostly female) and medical professionals were trained. Hospitals were opened in the countryside. Infant mortality decreased significantly
- Folk
artists became popular and were influenced by international protest movements
in the 1960s
- Artists praised the revolution and its advances but criticised its failures, authoritarianism and the restriction of artistic freedom
- In
1960, the Cuban
Women’s Federation or FMC was started under Vilma Espin
- It started by attacking attitudes and
illiteracy and created support for a national healthcare system where women
might find employment
- In
1975 the egalitarian Family Code was enacted and made sexual equality in
marriage a legal and moral obligation
- The
code mandated an equal sharing of house chores and child raising and
legitimised divorce
- Women started attending universities in growing numbers (by 1990 57% of university students were women. The number of women in school and the workplace tripled between 1959-1990
- The
code mandated an equal sharing of house chores and child raising and
legitimised divorce
- In
1975 the egalitarian Family Code was enacted and made sexual equality in
marriage a legal and moral obligation
- During the 1970s, Cuba guaranteed the entitlement of all citizens regardless of gender and ethnicity to equal wages, education, healthcare and merit hiring
- It started by attacking attitudes and
illiteracy and created support for a national healthcare system where women
might find employment
- Schools
in the countryside were considered inadequate so Castro mobilised 100,000
students to teach in rural areas
- They taught a million people to read and write and this gave Cuba one of the highest literacy rates in Latin America
- Between
1971-71, productivity increased by 20%.
The efforts to systemise economic production combined with the merit
system resulted in a significant rise in the GDP from 3.9% to 10% annually
- One in two Cubans worked in the sugar industry which meant for half the year they were unemployed. Now Castro guaranteed them an adequate yearly wage
- Cuba's Development
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