| Summary: | One of the weaknesses currently identified in the Cuban economy is the theoretical advance on local development and its measurement. Even when it has been gaining space through different experiences throughout Cuba, it must continue to be enriched; that is why this research will address local development in La Isla de la Juventud and its measurement, from different Cuban experiences, assuming as a general objective: to diagnose local development, based on the Municipal Advancement Index, the Municipal Development Index and the Human Development Index in La Isla de la Juventud, in the period 2011-2015. The calculation and analysis of these three indices allowed to know that the territory has had a retrocession according to the Municipal Advancement Index, the Human Development Index and the Municipal Development Index, placing the municipality in a medium development; The figures confirm the economic situation as one of the weaknesses that affect the decline of the pine economy, accompanied by the demographic issue and living conditions becomes a fatal triad to ensure the social welfare desired by people from that region, after being a pilot space to implement development plans aimed at food self-sufficiency, import substitution, promotion of exports, employment generation, development of industry, etc., and everything, as a whole, implies a better quality of life for its inhabitants.
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