Reports

Análisis del Presupuesto Recomendado para el Año Fiscal 2015

Las finanzas de Puerto Rico se han deteriorado significativamente en el último año, específicamente desde la degradación del crédito en febrero. En este contexto, el gobierno de Puerto Rico tendrá que balancear múltiples presiones sobre el fondo general para: (1) compensar cualquier pérdida de fondos federales, (2) subsidiar las corporaciones públicas que tienen problemas financieros, (3) mantener los sistemas de retiro a flote, (4) cumplir con todas las obligaciones financieras del ELA y (5) financiar todos los servicios de salud, educación y seguridad que esperan los ciudadanos del gobierno.

Un verdadero defensor de los consumidores

Como parte del trabajo que el Centro para una Nueva Economía ha estado realizando para precisar los parámetros que debe tener el marco regulatorio del sistema eléctrico en Puerto Rico, le comisionamos al Regulatory Assistance Project – un grupo destacado en Vermont experto en la industria eléctrica – un estudio sobre cómo desarrollar una Oficina del Defensor de los Consumidores para el sistema eléctrico en Puerto Rico.

Reforma eléctrica en tiempos de crisis: un análisis que identifica el marco adecuado para Puerto Rico

CNE ha estado trabajando con RAP para identificar las mejores prácticas que se han desarrollado en el mundo en términos de marcos regulatorios y ofrecer recomendaciones para Puerto Rico que estén fundamentadas en el análisis empírico. A esos efectos, el RAP ha desarrollado un primer documento: “The Role of a Power Sector Regulator to Strengthen Sector Performance in Puerto Rico”. El mismo identifica los poderes y responsabilidades esenciales que debe tener la Junta o Comisión Reguladora que se cree para supervisar el mercado eléctrico en Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico Survey of Consumer Finances: Top-Line Report

The PRSCF is the first-ever survey that provides detailed information on the socioeconomic dynamics of household and individuals in the island. As such, it helps fill major information gaps on critical topics that are central to CNE’s mission of advancing Puerto Rico’s socioeconomic development.

Fiscal Situation Update: Fiscal Year 2013-2014 Budget

This Fiscal Update Report presents an independent analysis of the proposals contained in the Governor’s budget request for fiscal year 2014. The analysis is based on CNE’s evaluation and interpretation of the budget data, rather than the Administration’s, and may incorporate estimates made by CNE’s staff or by other private sector analysts. Our analysis also includes a review of the fiscal trends for the fiscal year 2013, which ends on June 30, as well as an update of ten budget indicators that we have followed over the last seven years.

Fiscal Situation Update: Fiscal Year 2012-2013 Budget

The Center for the New Economy (CNE) has just published its analysis of the proposals contained in the Governor’s budget request for fiscal year 2013. The analysis also includes a review of the fiscal trends for the fiscal year 2012, which ends on June 30, as well as an update of ten budget indicators that CNE has followed over the last five or six years.

Coffee Cultivation and Economic Development in the Castañer Region

Coffee has been grown in Puerto Rico for over 275 years. Between 1855 and 1898, for a relatively brief moment, all the necessary conditions to sustain a vigorous coffee industry were sustained in Puerto Rico: cheap land; an abundant, dependent and low-paid labor force; credit and financing by merchant firms; favorable access to international markets; relatively high market prices; and the agricultural know-how to take advantage of it all. Today, however, the coffee industry is on the verge of disappearing from the island.

Rethinking the Governance of State-Owned Enterprises in Puerto Rico

The executive branch of the government of Puerto Rico carries out its operations through two distinct sets of administrative structures. On the one hand, there are the agencies and departments, such as the Justice and the Treasury departments, which constitute the “central government” of the Commonwealth. On the other hand, there are the state- owned enterprises, commonly known as “public corporations” in Puerto Rico, which constitute what we may call the “other” central government of Puerto Rico.