CNE – Centro Para Una Nueva Economía – Center for a New Economy
Non-profit, economic research and policy development organization
I am writing on behalf of the Center for a New Economy (“CNE”), a Puerto Rico, non-partisan, not-for-profit, independent think tank, to convey our analysis of the Fiscal Plan presented by the government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico on October 14, 2016 (the “Fiscal Plan”), pursuant to the formal Invitation to Comment issued by the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico (the “FOB”), which you preside. We thank you and the FOB for this opportunity to present our analysis and comments on the Fiscal Plan.
We are writing in response to the request for “stakeholder input” issued by the Bipartisan Congressional Task Force on Economic Growth in Puerto Rico (the “Task Force”), which was established pursuant to Section 409 of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (“PROMESA”).1
We are writing in response to the request for “stakeholder input” issued by the Bipartisan Congressional Task Force on Economic Growth in Puerto Rico (the “Task Force”), which was established pursuant to Section 409 of the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (“PROMESA”).1
El pasado 15 de junio de 2016 CNE retomó públicamente el tema con la presentación de “Devising a Growth Strategy for Puerto Rico”, un informe elaborado junto al Initiative for Policy Dialogue de la Universidad de Columbia que comienza a esbozar los lineamientos de una nueva política industrial para la isla. ¿En qué consiste la propuesta de CNE? Escucha CNE Unplugged, donde reproducimos el audio de la exposición que hicieron los tres autores del informe ante la prensa.
Puerto Rico experimenta una de las peores recesiones que se han registrado en el mundo durante la pasada década, segunda solo a la de Grecia que acumuló una caída de 28% en su Producto Interno Bruto (PIB) entre 2007-2015. La contracción de la economía de Puerto Rico comenzó en 2006 (antes que la crisis financiera de 2007 en EEUU) y ha ocasionado una reducción cumulativa de 14% del Producto Nacional Bruto (PNB) de la isla. Es por esto que se podría decir que la economía de Puerto Rico ha experimentado ya una “década perdida”.
The Puerto Rican economy has already experienced a “lost decade”—to use the term that the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, ECLAC, coined in the 1980s for Latin America and that has been widely used at the international level since then—and, if no action is adopted soon, it will continue on a negative path for the foreseeable future.
