CNE 2019 Summer Reading List
Great books enlighten, empower, and energize us to seek new insights. This summer, CNE staff members share the top three books shaping their thinking.
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Great books enlighten, empower, and energize us to seek new insights. This summer, CNE staff members share the top three books shaping their thinking.
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Blueprint, the CNE Growth Commission housing and land initiative, continues to provide a platform for the exchange of knowledge and information through a series of public gatherings and events. There is a need to broaden the discussion about housing in Puerto Rico in the post-disaster period, including issues pertaining to safe and durable housing; Blueprint achieves this by bringing together various sectors in collaborative efforts.
El diccionario de la Real Academia Española provee cuatro definiciones para la palabra claroscuro. Dos de Ă©stas son particularmente relevantes para describir la realidad de la Autoridad de EnergĂa ElĂ©ctrica (la “AEE”), en general, y el Acuerdo de ReestructuraciĂłn de la Deuda de esa agencia con un grupo de bonistas (“RSA” por sus siglas en inglĂ©s), en especifico. De acuerdo con el diccionario, claroscuro puede referirse a: (1) una “distribuciĂłn muy acusada de la luz y de las sombras de un cuadro”; o (2) un “conjunto de rasgos contradictorios de una persona, de una situaciĂłn o de una cosa.”
For the sixth year in a row, Puerto Rico’s Center for a New Economy (CNE) has been included in the most recent edition of the 2018 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report published by the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) at the University of Pennsylvania’s renowned Lauder Institute. CNE was recognized in the Think Tanks to Watch in 2019 and Best Independent Think Tanks categories.
An expansionist outlook of American leaders in the late 1800s led the United States to acquire possessions outside of the contiguous land that we still refer to as “the mainland.” However, other than designing military strategies that would provide the U.S. a geopolitical advantage, little thought was given to how these territories would be governed.
On May 3, 2019, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (“PREPA”), the Puerto Rico Fiscal Agency and Financial Advisory Authority (“AAFAF”), and the Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico (the “FOMB”), executed a “Definitive Restructuring Support Agreement” (the “RSA”), with the members of the Ad Hoc Group of PREPA Bondholders (the “Ad Hoc Group”), and Assured Guaranty Corp. and Assured Guaranty Municipal Corp. (collectively, “Assured”), for the restructuring of a portion of certain bonds issued by PREPA.
Sergio Marxuach, public policy director at the Center for a New Economy, testified on April 9 during a hearing of the US House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources. Below we share his oral statements on the state of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority and recommendations for Puerto Rico’s energy transformation.Â