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Federal law requires, since 1974, that a list of “tax expenditures” be included in annual federal budget documents. Tax expenditures are defined as “revenue losses attributable to provisions of the federal tax laws which allow a special exclusion, exemption, or deduction from gross income or which provide a special credit, a preferential tax rate, or a deferral of liability”.
En una nota reciente en la secci贸n llamada聽鈥淓conomix鈥澛燿el New York Times en su versi贸n electr贸nica, la聽profesora de econom铆a de U.Mass Amherst Nancy Folbre聽comenta sobre los efectos negativos de la desigualdad.聽 Aunque en la teor铆a econ贸mica ortodoxa se planteaba que el crecimiento econ贸mico y la equidad son objetivos encontrados, esta visi贸n se hace menos sostenible a medida que incrementa el conocimiento econ贸mico y sociol贸gico sobre la desigualdad y su impacto sobre el tejido social.
El Banco de la Reserva Federal de Nueva York present贸 hoy su an谩lisis sobre la econom铆a de Puerto Rico y la situaci贸n del empleo en la isla.聽 Con respecto a la econom铆a, la FED report贸 que la recesi贸n en Puerto Rico antecede a la recesi贸n en los Estados Unidos por dos a帽os y 茅sta ha sido mucho m谩s profunda en la isla.
Aunque la econom铆a global ha comenzado a dar indicios de recuperaci贸n, todav铆a es prematuro para celebrar: las instituciones financieras se encuentran sumamente d茅biles y los consumidores en las econom铆as m谩s avanzadas han sufrido p茅rdidas significativas de riqueza. El crecimiento econ贸mico a corto plazo a nivel global, por lo tanto, se vislumbra positivo pero bastante modesto y el desempleo se espera que se mantenga a niveles relativamente altos durante los pr贸ximos a帽os.
During the last few years economists and non-governmental institutions have studied the link between governance and economic performance. According to the World Bank, governance consists of the traditions and institutions by which authority in a country is exercised.
Imagine it is the year 2035 and all international trade and travel has halted to a dead stop due to the sudden appearance of a highly contagious disease hitherto unknown to humanity.聽 The good news is that Chinese Pharmaceutical Company, which is majority-owned by the Chinese government, has developed a highly effective vaccine against this disease.聽 The bad news is that it will cost the government of Puerto Rico $2 billion to acquire sufficient doses to protect its population.
What should we consider as progress in the 21st Century? 聽How can we measure such progress? 聽These are two provocative questions that the global project on Measuring the Progress of Societies, directed by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), attempts to elucidate.
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”.
