CNE – Centro Para Una Nueva Economía – Center for a New Economy
Non-profit, economic research and policy development organization
The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 included $25 billion in emergency rental assistance for FY 2021, with a $400 million carve-out for Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands. The Secretary of the Treasury will make allocations based on population size and eligibility.
More than three years have passed since Hurricanes Irma and María struck us mercilessly, and post-disaster reconstruction still seems like a distant and unfulfilled promise.
This week, the CNE Team has put together a summary of some of the issues we think will be relevant during 2021. We have broken them down into four categories: the pandemic; the economy; the reconstruction; and international trends. We hope you find this summary useful as you plan the year ahead.
Esta semana, el equipo de CNE ha elaborado un resumen de algunos de los temas que creemos serán relevantes durante el 2021. Los hemos dividido en cuatro categorías: la pandemia; la economía; la reconstrucción; y algunas tendencias internacionales. Esperamos que este resumen les resulte útil a la hora de planificar el próximo año.
In 2020, CNE produced hundreds of daily briefings and weekly reviews, policy briefs, empirical research reports, evidence-based analyses, and op-eds. This week we highlight ten of them because they garnered the most interest from our readers and are particularly relevant to the challenges Puerto Rico faces.
En 2020, CNE desarrolló cientos de Daily Briefings y Weekly Reviews, informes de política pública, investigaciones empíricas, análisis basados en evidencia y columnas. Esta semana destacamos diez de ellos porque despertaron el mayor interés de nuestros lectores y son particularmente relevantes para los desafíos que enfrenta Puerto Rico.
En febrero de este año, la Junta de Supervisión y Administración Fiscal de Puerto Rico llegó a un acuerdo con los bonistas de $10,600 millones de Bonos de Obligación General de Puerto Rico y presentó una propuesta de Plan de Ajuste ante el tribunal del Título III.
This week we celebrate a milestone as CNE turns 22. We have a special message from our founder and president to commemorate the occasion. We then have a report regarding some effective public health policies implemented in Valencia. We close with an analysis of the most recent Plan of Adjustment proposed to Puerto Rico’s creditors by the FOMB.
