As Cuba takes leap towards 'cashless' economy, entrepreneurs brace for impactMost alarming to many budding entrepreneurs was a new 5,000 peso ($20) daily cap on cash withdrawals for businesses, one of several measure...
India, smaller nations talk trade via Rupee accountsThe Reserve Bank of India (RBI), finance ministry and National Payment Corp. of India (NPCI) did not comment on the matter. The Indian Econ...
India may settle Cuba trade in RupeesCuban Central Bank officials for the first time met with the Reserve Bank of India and a group of five large local banks, including State B...
Mobile internet: Cuba's new revolutionUp until December 2018, when mobile internet first arrived, Cubans wishing to use the internet had to find one of several dozen Wi-Fi hotsp...
Cuba's president to drop its dual currency system from next monthGovernment officials for several years had conceded the difficulties of having the two currencies and different exchange rates, but they ma...
Is Cuba ready for life without US trade embargo?The embargo outlawing most economic and financial transactions with the communist-run island was decreed in 1962 by then president John F K...
- Cuba's urban farming program a stunning success
For Miladis Bouza, the global food crisis arrived two decades ago. Now, her efforts to climb out of it could serve as a model for people ar...
- Cuba gives raises to retirees, court employees; says more salary increases on way
Cuba's government on Sunday announced sizable raises for retirees and court employees, and promised future pay hikes for other government w...
- Cubans line up for their first cellular phone lines
Hundreds of Cubans lined up at state-owned telephone offices on Monday to buy cellular phone services previously available only to governme...
- Cuba giving land to private farmers
Cuba has decided on a major expansion of its program to distribute underused and fallow farmland to private farmers and cooperatives.
- Raul Castro lets loose even more reforms
Shoppers snapped up DVD players, motorbikes and pressure cookers for the first time on Tuesday as Cuba loosened its control on consumer goo...
- Awaiting Ebay of Guinea Pigs?
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