Cuban Education Problems

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Perhaps there’s no issues is as significance as human development. Indeed, there are so many countries faced developing problems and their government are trying to solve this problem by using some solutions in order to improve their domestic country. The republic Cuba is a country with high expediency communism country and it’s located between the Caribbean Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean (CIA 5). Due to the ending of revolution, the government of Cuba tried their best to ensure the social satiability, mean while, the hight life expectancy and the high education index were clearly display the positive talent of Cuba government. On the other hand, the aggravate poverty keep impeding the development economy of Cuba, and erode the confidence …show more content…
According to the Human Development Index which shows that the Index of education in Cuba has turned to be 0.743 (HDI 5) in 2013 from 0.517 in 1962. Every year’s education expenditures was 12.8% of their GDP (CIA 2) in order to tackle with the low educational problems, the government implement policies to boost the literacy rate and educational level. For instance, the article of a research for Cuba education says that “this year, 2 million Cubans began the school year, art schools and institutions for orphans continue to welcome students, 800 children are starting ballet lessons and tens of thousands of physically or mentally disabled kids receive special education, learning to make the most of their skills” (HavanaTimes 12) Even thought those disabled kids received special education, and depends on the normalize relations between the U.S and Cuba, the U.S provided more education to Cuba, such as the article which wrote by the Professor of Cuba issue which said “ The U.S. and Cuba built strong links in education over the span of more than 50 years after the island’s independence from Spain in 1902” (Hare 12) it described that the U.S has increased the education cooperation with Cuba, that is another current action which Cuba took in order to improve their educational level. Therefore, more education they got will …show more content…
It will directly boost the life expectancy, no matter this country is a democracy or a dictatorial, the countries expectancy still very high. According to the Cuban official with the centre for the study of Cuba, it shows that the “the population and development has already the highness with the world nearly 78.48 average.” (TelesuR 3) and According to article which written by Dr. Tupy says that sine the life expectancy has been count, more than 83 percent were free and 6 percent were partly free, however, there’s no country gad a life expectancy over 80 years. (Tupy 5) In the terms of Cuba life expectancy, it ’s the best dictatorial country with such high expectancy. By the same token, the reason why Cuba has so high expectancy duo to the social security measures were better than other countries. The article shows that “ There statues as a low - income country and medical system recognised as one of the best” (World Banks 5) Meanwhile, it also says that “Cuba doctors also provide the basic health care to improvised communities” it clearly shows that people can be better living and higher living standard and expectancy. Therefore, the government can provide the basic help even some of the medical health to the domestic citizens. By contract, the literate population is related to the life expectancy, according to the Dr. Tupy’s report, “ the literate population is relatively high valued to the government” (Tupy 6) Due

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