Periodico 26

Cuba is working at an accelerated pace to boost its economy amidst a scenario marked by increased hostility from the United States.

Despite the tightening of the blockade, and the adverse regional economic setting, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) forecasts that the Cuban economy will not decline in 2019.

Alejandro Gil, Minister of Economy and Planning (MEP), says that despite the intensification of the blockade and the hostile measures against the country, Cuba maintains the aspiration of achieving a discrete economic growth in 2019.

The Cuban Council of Ministers analyzed critically the progress of the national economy, the execution of the 2018 budget, foreign investment and programs in various regions of the country, reports today Granma daily.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel advocated collective thinking to boost the economy, based on the generation of ideas that lead to transformation and progress.

The Cuban Government expects a 1.5 percent increase in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2019, with slight recovery of the sugar industry and better performances in other areas such as construction, transportation and communications.

Cuba's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has a growth forecast for 2019, slightly higher than one percent, Economy Minister Alejandro Gil said today.

Cuba's President, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, insisted on assessing economic management as the main task of the Revolution due to the repercussions of its results on the people's satisfaction, Granma newspaper reports Friday.

The Cuban Gross Domestic Product had a discreet growth of 1.1 percent at the end of the first half, when the county faced shortages in hard currency, said Miguel Díaz-Canel, President of the Council of State and Ministers.

Interview with Ricardo Cabrisas Ruiz, Minister of Economy and Planning, following December session of the National Assembly of People's Power, where 2017 and 2018 state budgets and economic plans were addressed - Plus facts and figures