CNE – Centro Para Una Nueva Economía – Center for a New Economy
Non-profit, economic research and policy development organization
Durante toda la crisis econ贸mica global, uno de los nombres que m谩s se ha mencionado ha sido el del famoso economista brit谩nico, John Maynard Keynes, por sus posturas intervencionistas para mitigar ciclos recesionarios. Sin embargo, para m铆 la declaraci贸n m谩s importante de Keynes fue la siguiente: “Lo realmente dif铆cil no es tanto desarrollar nuevas ideas sino lograr escapar de las viejas”.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
