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Cuba’s Economy Surged in 2015

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Cuba’s economic growth quickened significantly in 2015, according to the latest estimates from the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. The island’s gross domestic product grew by 4 percent in 2015, after expanding by just 1.3 percent in 2014, according to the ECLAC data. That also represented Cuba’s highest year-over-year GDP … Read more

Cuba’s Economy is Booming

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By the Cuba Journal staff It may be from a rapid influx of new visitors or the country’s recent lightening of foreign investment restrictions — but Cuba’s economy is booming. The country posted a 4.7 percent growth in GDP in the first half of 2015, the government said this week, which would make it one of the … Read more