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We outline six topics to watch in 2022: the pandemic, the debt restructuring, Hurricane Maria reconstruction, the midterm elections, inflation and the return of geopolitics. Plus what our Madrid bureau will be following this year.
Using the San Juan Metropolitan Area as a case study, this Lincoln Institute working paper measures how neighborhood change relates to Hurricane Maria’s impacts and the geography of opportunity, to guide where reconstruction spending should go.
From Madrid, we outline three European debates with lessons for Puerto Rico in 2022: rising electricity prices and reliance on natural gas, the future of fiscal rules, and how to absorb a massive influx of reconstruction funds.
Desde Madrid, presentamos tres debates europeos con lecciones para Puerto Rico en 2022: el alza en el precio de la electricidad y la dependencia del gas natural, el futuro de las reglas fiscales y cómo absorber un influjo masivo de fondos de reconstrucción.
Edición especial sobre nuestro Growth Policy Summit 2021, donde unas 300 personas escucharon a Joseph Stiglitz y a otros expertos sobre el crecimiento económico en Puerto Rico. Nuestro editor reflexiona sobre por qué la temporada podría estar cambiando.
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.
In testimony to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, we document how FEMA and HUD delayed Hurricane Maria aid to Puerto Rico through unprecedented conditions and reviews. Whatever the intent, the effects were discriminatory.
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.
