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.
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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.
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.
Puerto Rico’s economy is recovering from three simultaneous shocks: the COVID-19 pandemic, the damage from Hurricanes Irma and Maria, and a debt restructuring entering its final phase. We break down the risks of each and how they interact.
As we commence yet another school year, we are dedicating this edition of the CNE Review to analyzing Puerto Rico’s largest and most important higher education institution, the University of Puerto Rico.
On the 5th anniversary of the enactment of PROMESA, the CNE Review takes a look at how PROMESA has evolved, what has been overlooked, its costs to Puerto Rico, and its consequences. The unavoidable conclusion is that the territorial bankruptcy regime set up by law has failed to achieve most of the goals set forth by its authors.
In the first edition of our new publication, the CNE Review, we take stock of the post-storm reconstruction and recovery process as we approach the beginning of yet another hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean.