Convergencias
En Puerto Rico llevamos no s茅 ya cuantos a帽os hablando de la necesidad de llegar a un consenso para lograr un desarrollo econ贸mico sostenido.聽 Culpamos nuestra inhabilidad de crecer la econom铆a a la falta de ese escurridizo consenso.
Issues
The Principles for Tax Reform
Puerto Rico currently has a tax system that no one consciously would have built from the ground up. It is unduly burdensome to administer and enforce; it is inequitable, along both horizontal and vertical dimensions; it oftentimes encourages the inefficient allocation of resources and it inflicts enormous damage to our competitiveness.
An Analysis of Potential Tax Incentives To Increase Charitable Giving in Puerto Rico
Improved incentives for private charitable donations would strengthen nonprofit organizations that provide a variety of public benefits in Puerto Rico. This study investigates options for stimulating additional charitable giving with enhanced tax incentives.
The Outlook for 2010
In 2009, according to The Economist magazine, world output shrank by more than 1 percent, the first time since 1945 that it has declined on a year-over-year basis. At the same time, years of excessive lending and irrational asset pricing finally caught up with the world’s financial system.
El铆as
Recientemente se public贸 en un diario del pa铆s una preocupante nota donde se fustiga y se culpa a la comunidad jud铆a en Puerto Rico por toda una serie de problemas. Leerla me caus贸 sorpresa y consternaci贸n, pero m谩s me sorprendi贸 que en los d铆as siguientes no vi ninguna respuesta en defensa o por lo menos condenando tales comentarios y tal actitud.
The Economy in 2009
This year was a tough and difficult one for the Puerto Rican economy. In part due to the Great Recession and the financial crises that have adversely affected economic activity around the world since 2007.
Brookings cuatro a帽os despu茅s
A casi cuatro a帽os de haber participado de los trabajos del聽Informe CNE/Brookings sobre la econom铆a de Puerto Rico, el聽Dr. Barry Bosworth,聽Senior Fellow聽del Instituto Brookings, encuentra que la situaci贸n econ贸mica de Puerto Rico se ha deteriorado marcadamente.聽 En parte, este deterioro se debe al impacto de la profunda crisis econ贸mica y financiera a nivel global.
Thanksgiving During Tough Times
On October 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation inviting his fellow citizens to “… in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficient Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.”