The move means eagerly anticipated licenses for the self-employed should be around the corner. Lines of potential entrepreneurs formed Monday at several government offices around the capital.

Cuba announced on Sept. 13 that it would lay off half a million workers and push them into the private sector, and later detailed some 178 private jobs that will be allowed, the most significant economic changes on the island since the early 1990s. But the rules did not become law until they were published.

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