CNE Review – December 2021
A special edition on our 2021 Growth Policy Summit, where some 300 people heard Joseph Stiglitz and other experts on economic growth in Puerto Rico. Our editor reflects on why the season may finally be turning.
CNE – Centro Para Una Nueva Economía – Center for a New Economy
Non-profit, economic research and policy development organization
A special edition on our 2021 Growth Policy Summit, where some 300 people heard Joseph Stiglitz and other experts on economic growth in Puerto Rico. Our editor reflects on why the season may finally be turning.
A special edition on education and economic development. Visiting Fellow Belinda Reyes argues that rebuilding Puerto Rico’s middle class requires a strong, well-funded post-secondary education system, even as the Oversight Board cuts the UPR’s budget nearly in half.
Edición especial sobre la educación y el desarrollo económico. La investigadora visitante Belinda Reyes plantea que reconstruir la clase media de Puerto Rico requiere un sistema de educación postsecundaria sólido y bien financiado, mientras la Junta de Supervisión Fiscal recorta casi a la mitad el presupuesto de la UPR.
We highlight the Build Back Better bill’s key provisions for Puerto Rico, from new wage credits for businesses and higher federal Medicaid funding to full SSI coverage, child care and universal pre-K.
Ante los apagones selectivos en Puerto Rico, revisamos los últimos documentos de emisión de bonos de la AEE para mostrar cómo sus finanzas y su sistema ya habían colapsado antes de que llegara LUMA, y qué se puede hacer de forma realista ahora.
As rolling blackouts hit Puerto Rico, we go back to PREPA’s last bond documents to show how its finances and system had already collapsed before LUMA took over, and what can realistically be done now.
Three years after opening our Washington, D.C. office, we review its results: a federal expansion of Puerto Rico’s EITC, Medicaid funding that averted a fiscal cliff, groundwork on SSI, and a role in shaping the federal response to the island’s challenges.
La economía de Puerto Rico se recupera de tres golpes simultáneos: la pandemia del COVID-19, los daños de los huracanes Irma y María y una reestructuración de la deuda que entra en su fase final. Analizamos los riesgos de cada uno y cómo se relacionan entre sí.