Social and Solidarity Economy in Cuba

Rafael J. Betancourt is associate professor in the Center for Demographic Studies at the University of Havana. Jusmary Gómez Arencibia is associate professor of sociology at the University of Havana.

Chapter 1 Socialism Is the Solution, Not the Problem. A Solidary and Socially Responsible Formula for a Prosperous Economy, by Enrique Gómez Cabezas

Chapter 2 Now More than Ever, a Social and Solidary Economy Is Necessary to Build Socialism in Cuba, by Rafael J. Betancourt

Chapter 3 The Social and Solidarity Economy: Integrating Bases, Experiences and Possible Projections for Socialist Development in Cuba, by Ovidio D’Angelo Hernández

Chapter 4 The Foundations of Popular and Solidarity Economics as Fulfillment of the Social Property of All People in the Socialist Transition, by Luis del Castillo Sánchez

Chapter 5 Participatory Budgeting: A Management Tool for Local Development in Cuba, Seen from the Experiences of the Office of the Historian of the City of Havana, by Orestes J. Díaz Legón and Maidolys Iglesias Pérez

Chapter 6 The Inclusion of Vulnerable Groups as Subjects of Development: Proposals from the Viewpoint of the Solidarity Economy, by Geydis Fundora Nevot and Reynaldo Miguel Jiménez Guethón

Chapter 7 Population, Value Chains, and Social and Solidarity Economy: Epistemological Alignments, by Dianné Griñan Bergara

Chapter 8 Do Public–Private Partnerships Have Room in the Present Cuban Context? Notes from a Practical Experience, by Mirlena Rojas Piedrahita

Chapter 9 Business Social Responsibility of the State Enterprise: The Experience of the Center of Molecular Immunology, by Jusmary Gómez Arencibia and Mirlena Rojas Piedrahita

Chapter 10 Cooperatives in the Restarted Reforms: Some Proposals for a Law of Cooperatives, by Camila Piñeiro Harnecker

Chapter 11 The Cooperative as an Energizing Agent of the Social and Solidarity Economy Model in Cuba, by Yamira Mirabal González and Iriadna Marín de León

Chapter 12 Participation in the Strategies and Social Management of Non-agricultural Cooperatives in Centro Habana Municipality, by Francisco Damián Morillas Valdés

Chapter 13 Committing to Cooperative Solidarity Labor: The Taxi Rutero 2 experience, by Mirell Pérez González

Chapter 14 Cooperative Social Balance: A Useful Tool to Establish a Social and Solidarity Economy, by Oscar Llanes Guerra, Mercedes Zenea Montejo, Annia Martínez Massip, and Lienny García Pedraza

Chapter 15 Gender Perspective Viewed from the Model of Social Balance in Agricultural Cooperatives in Villa Clara, by Annia Martínez Massip, Lienny García Pedraza, Oscar Llanes Guerra, Mercedes Zenea Montejo, Lázaro Julio Leiva Hoyo, Anelys Pérez Rodríguez, Elianys de la Caridad Zorio González

Chapter 16 Business Social Responsibility in Local Development: A Look at the Training of Local Actors in the Province of Mayabeque, by Orquídea Hailyn Abreu González, Yuneidys González Espinosa, Joanna Gasmury Roldán

Chapter 17 “Go for it: You can do it!”: The Solidarity Experience of Female Entrepreneurs, by Jusmary Gómez Arencibia

Chapter 18 Business Social Responsibility Does Not Go Unnoticed in Cuban Private Enterprises, by William Bello Sánchez

Chapter 19 Institutional Social Responsibility and Subjectivity, by Consuelo Martin Fernández and Jany Bárcenas Alfonso