Crisis spurs Cuban monetary reform
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Significance This step is essential to advancing the country’s economic reform agenda, but it promises to be tricky, putting pressure on inefficient state companies, threatening savings and risking inflation dynamics that will be difficult to control. Impacts Inflation fears will see demand for foreign currency on the black market rise further. Despite government pledges to guarantee cash and savings, people will seek to invest or hoard goods, increasing pressure on provisions. Social tension may rise but major unrest is unlikely during the pandemic, with efforts to contain the virus commanding widespread support.
2017 ◽
Vol 9
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pp. 117-132
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