Cuba, on the other hand, is a communist dictatorship. The Castro brothers took power in 1959, and implemented a communist regime. Throughout the beginning of the regime, Cuba was supported economically by the Soviet union, which enabled them to prosper (Prieto). Since Fidel Castro’s death on November 25th, many people have been both celebrating his death while examining the brutality of the regime and reflecting on the good that it has done for social programs. Dom Phillips and Joshua Partlow of the Washington Post speak about the legacy that Fidel’s regime left on the rest of Latin America. Although Castro was a brutal dictator, he created a country with a large focus on social spending to provide for the poor. Cuba, under the Castro regime,
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In the previous decades, Jamaica had relied heavily on their natural resources for economic stability, but when global prices for ore fell, the economy began to plummet. Jamaica’s government began to rely more heavily on loans from the World Bank, IMF and the Inter-American Development Bank. Meanwhile, the economy was not growing, and the Jamaican people were often experiencing negative growth (Dennis). In Sudhanshu Handa and Damien King’s work, Adjustment with a Human Face? Evidence from Jamaica, they explore the effects of the structural adjustment programs on Jamaican citizens through the lens of children’s health. The structural adjustment programs include the liberalization of exchange rates, lessening of government subsidies, and austerity programs. Handa and King’s research shows that directly following the implementation of these programs, the z-score weight of children fell, and this was seen especially prevalent in urban children (Handa). Since the implementation of the structural adjustment programs Jamaica’s average GDP per capita has been on the rise, reaching a maximum of $5,445 in 2012 (World Bank). However, the people of Jamaica are deeply affected, since trade has become liberalized. Many people who made a living through subsistence agriculture were no longer able to do so since importing foreign goods became substantially less expensive (Life in Debt). Although average GDP per capita is increasing in Jamaica, it is imperative to understand the effects of structural adjustment programs on not just the economy, but also on the citizens who must face the effects in their day to day
In the previous decades, Jamaica had relied heavily on their natural resources for economic stability, but when global prices for ore fell, the economy began to plummet. Jamaica’s government began to rely more heavily on loans from the World Bank, IMF and the Inter-American Development Bank. Meanwhile, the economy was not growing, and the Jamaican people were often experiencing negative growth (Dennis). In Sudhanshu Handa and Damien King’s work, Adjustment with a Human Face? Evidence from Jamaica, they explore the effects of the structural adjustment programs on Jamaican citizens through the lens of children’s health. The structural adjustment programs include the liberalization of exchange rates, lessening of government subsidies, and austerity programs. Handa and King’s research shows that directly following the implementation of these programs, the z-score weight of children fell, and this was seen especially prevalent in urban children (Handa). Since the implementation of the structural adjustment programs Jamaica’s average GDP per capita has been on the rise, reaching a maximum of $5,445 in 2012 (World Bank). However, the people of Jamaica are deeply affected, since trade has become liberalized. Many people who made a living through subsistence agriculture were no longer able to do so since importing foreign goods became substantially less expensive (Life in Debt). Although average GDP per capita is increasing in Jamaica, it is imperative to understand the effects of structural adjustment programs on not just the economy, but also on the citizens who must face the effects in their day to day