Institutionalization of the cooperative sector in Cuba: a necessary proposal

Abstract

The current conditions of cooperativism in Cuba demand the need to offer solutions aimed at promoting the development of the sector, in coherence with the updating of the Cuban Economic and Social Model and in function of strengthening mainly the relations between the State and this sector of the economy due to its significance for the economic, productive and social development of the country. This article is based on creating an institutional structure that promotes, advises, supervises, controls and contributes to the achievement of a real management autonomy and, at the same time, establishes the public management processes through which the State guarantees the fulfillment of the economic and social commitments and the full recognition of the cooperative sector, without distinction between the agro livestock and non-agro livestock sectors. For the development of the research, the dialectical-materialist method was assumed as the general method, which made possible the integration of theoretical methods such as the historical-logical and the systemic-structural and empirical methods such as observation. Associated with these, the procedures of analysis and synthesis and the documentary analysis technique were applied. As results, the theoretical foundation of the problems linked to the State-cooperative relations and the institutionalization of the sector is offered for the realization of a proposal of attention to the sector. The institutional structure conceived is the National Institute of Cooperativism of Cuba and, from it, a series of strategic and management elements that make it distinctive are defined: logo, mission, vision, structure, objectives and functions.