Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. The damage to their income and labor composition has been significant. But, at the same time, the crisis represented an opportunity for many SMEs to make the leap to digital transformation and move forward in modernizing their operations.
Accustomed to extensive processes, overwhelming paperwork and endless red tape, bureaucracy was set to be one of the main fears for the first wave of self-employed workers (TCP) who decided to evolve into micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). However, according to Bernardo Romero González, founder and CEO of Ingenius, the process works.
Changing concepts, preconceived ideas or those imposed over time, and breaking the mould is very difficult due to the intrinsic complexity of the human being. However, little by little, a local development project in Havana has managed to transform that post-special period notion that the bicycle is a symbol of decadence, economic problems, shortages or necessity, into an approach towards a better quality of life, a means to lessen environmental pollution, and an opportunity for greater socialization with the rescue of cycling mobility in the city.
Government authorities defined the emerging Micro, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (MSMEs) set to burst into the nation’s productive framework in a few weeks as “a novel actor with a dynamic role in the Cuban economic scenario.”
Cuba has finally begun to retrace the long road leading to the establishment of Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (MSMEs), a new economic actor that promises to energize and diversify the national economy.
Building tents and castles with the sofa cushions, sheets and bed pillows is more than just fun – it also represents an act of independence for children, in accordance with the Montessori philosophy.
During the last year, along with the effects of COVID-19, Cuban self-employed workers have had to face circumstances as diverse as the worsening of the U.S. blockade, the elimination of the dual currency system, and the expansion of authorized economic activities for the private sector.
“Surely now you pay more taxes,” is the phrase I hear the most since the Cuban government, through Official Gazette No. 94, allowed the creation of new actors in the country’s economy. And yes, the phrase may be true, that now in the new economic scenario more taxes are paid. But is this so bad?
AlaSoluciones is on the list of the first 35 micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) approved in the country.
This is the goal of Rafael, a young Cuban entrepreneur, who has made the world of fitness and spinning his life project and his business.
