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Asset Building in Puerto Rico: A Study of Children Development Accounts in Caguas

In this paper we examine the establishment and operations of a CDA program in Caguas, Puerto Rico. This program affords us an opportunity to test whether asset-building policies can provide a new approach to social welfare in Latin American countries and Hispanic communities in the United States, a middle way between paternalistic, government-based social programs on the one hand and so-called neo-liberal approaches on the other.

Trabajadores

La crisis fiscal y econ贸mica por la cual atravesamos en Puerto Rico y a nivel global, ha resaltado muchas de las diferencias de percepci贸n e interpretaci贸n de los eventos entre trabajadores y patronos. Ambos lados reaccionan con preocupaci贸n. Pero sus propuestas en la mayor铆a de los casos son muy diferentes.

Puerto Rico’s Anemic Private Sector

Professors Steven Davis and Luis Rivera Batiz, in an analysis conducted for their contribution to the book The Economy of Puerto Rico: Restoring Growth, published in 2006 by the Center for the New Economy and the Brookings Institution, found that a “truly striking feature of Puerto Rico’s economy is the underdeveloped state of its private sector.” According to their analysis, private sector employment rates in Puerto Rico are less than half the U.S. rates in recent decades.

The Dangers of (de)Globalization

Between 1870 and 1914 the world lived the high point of the first era of economic globalization. The globe was effectively connected through railways, steamships, and telegraph lines.

Prop贸sito

Algunos lloran. Otros r铆en. Muchos se deprimen. Todo el mundo reacciona a la crisis y a la adversidad de maneras distintas. No soy sic贸logo, pero asumo que lo importante en estos asuntos no es tanto c贸mo reaccionar sino entender lo que est谩 sucediendo y asumir responsabilidad.

The Rule of Law and the Enforcement of Contracts

The rule of law is one of the most important institutions for economic development. For Friedrich von Hayek, Nobel prize winner in economics, the rule of law meant that “government in all its actions is bound by rules fixed beforehand 鈥撀爎ules which make it possible to foresee with fair certainty how the authority will use its coercive powers in given circumstances and to plan one’s individual affairs on the basis of this knowledge.”

Seeing Things in their Precise Shape and Color

The current economic situation, both locally and globally, is the most complicated the world has seen since the Great Depression. In the midst of all this complexity is it imperative that we see things as they really are in order to properly diagnose the situation and to prescribe the correct course of action.

La experiencia de Nueva York

Cuando publicamos nuestro Informe de CNE/Brookings hace dos a帽os, de las primeras presentaciones que hicimos fueron las de Nueva York. Era vital para nosotros llevar el mensaje de la situaci贸n econ贸mica de Puerto Rico a un grupo importante de nuestra di谩spora.