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— the result is a poor society with a massively underperforming economy . A modem state with an advanced infrastructure and a rapidly diversifying economy has been created in less than three decades . Although food security was the least concern in land reform policy , it is now the primary concern of government 's current policy efforts constrained as they are by a rapidly shrinking economy amidst growing international sanctions against provision of development assistance to the country under the present regime . With a slowly growing economy in the 1990s , the Russian economy has delivered strongly since recovering from the 1998 rouble crisis . In Cuba , Castro has turned a once thriving economy into a basket case .