Radio Cadena Agramonte emisiora de Camagüey
Havana, Aug 22.- The main difficulties that prevent Mipymes from accessing financing and, therefore, impact their prosperity and contribution to territorial development, were exposed the day before in this capital with the aim of proposing innovative solutions or instruments to the corresponding instances.
A workshop for this purpose is in session until Tuesday with representatives of such forms of management and governments of Pinar del Río, Villa Clara, Holguín and Granma, as well as experts from the Central Bank of Cuba, the Ministry of Economy and Planning (MEP), of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and other agencies of the international organization.
After learning about the march in those provinces of the Mipymes and Entrepreneurships project: Contributing to a Sustainable, Effective and Inclusive Territorial Development in Cuba, of the UNDP, based on their experiences and divided into groups, alluded to restrictions on access to bank credits, interest rates, the support of the bank in its business and training, among other issues.
In statements to the Cuban News Agency, Aizel Llanes, coordinator of the MEP’s Articulated Platform for Comprehensive Territorial Development (PADIT), said that the workshop on inclusive financing mechanisms for Mipymes reveals that other sources to which these actors can appeal.
As examples he mentioned the environmental fund; that of science, technology and innovation and that of local development, in addition to international collaboration, and recalled the role of Padit in promoting the participation of economic and social actors, and citizens, based on local development.
That is why this exchange in which provincial governments, Mipymes from different branches, banking and financial institutions, academia and UNDP are present, with the aim of achieving integration among all and enriching national policies.
He was of the opinion that the success of these forms of management - mostly non-state - should have an impact on territorial development and provide greater benefit to the population, which is the primary objective in all national policies, and whatever is done to enrich and improve them always it will be helpful. (Text and photo: ACN)
