Format:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 607 p)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0815715544
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0815715536
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0815715609
Content:
A Brookings Institution Press and the Center for the New Economy publication A non-incorporated territory of the United States, Puerto Rico operates under U.S. legal, monetary, security and tariff systems. Despite sharing in these and other key U.S. institutions, Puerto Rico has experienced economic stagnation and large scale unemployment since the 1970s. The island's living standards are low by U.S. standards, with a per capita income only half that of Mississippi, the poorest state. While many studies have analyzed the fiscal implications of Puerto Rico's political relationship with the United States, little research has focused broadly on the island's economic experience or assessed its growth prospects. In this innovative new book, economists from U.S. and Puerto Rican institutions address a range of major policy issues affecting the island's economic development. To frame the current situation, the contributors begin by assessing Puerto Rico's past experience with various growth policies. They then analyze several reforms and new initiatives in labor, education, entrepreneurship, fiscal policy, migration, trade, and financing development, which they incorporate into a proposed strategy for jumpstarting Puerto Rican economic growth. Contributors include Gary Burtless (Brookings Institution); Orlando Sotomayor, Luis Rivera-Batiz, Ramón Cao, Maria Enchautegui, José Joaquín Villamil, Eileen Segarra, Marinés Aponte, and Juan Lara (University of Puerto Rico); Richard Freeman and Robert Lawrence (Harvard University); Helen Ladd (Duke University); Francisco Rivera-Batiz (Columbia University); Steven Davis and Bruce Meyer (University of Chicago); James Alm (Georgia State University); Ingo Walter, Rita Maldonado-Bear, and William Baumol (New York University); Belinda Reyes (University of California, Merced); Alan Krueger (Princeton University); Carlos
Content:
Front Cover -- Front Flap -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction and Summary -- Economic Growth -- Labor Supply and Public Transfers -- Why Don't More Puerto Rican Men Work: The Rich Uncle (Sam) Hypothesis -- Education and Economic Development -- The Climate for Business Development and Employment Growth -- Assessing Puerto Rico's Fiscal Policies -- Financing Economic Development -- Trade Performance and Industrial Policy -- Restoring Growth: The Policy Options -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Flap -- Back Cover.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction and Summary""; ""Economic Growth""; ""Labor Supply and Public Transfers""; ""Why Don't More Puerto Rican Men Work? The Rich Uncle (Sam) Hypothesis""; ""Education and Economic Development""; ""The Climate for Business Development and Employment Growth""; ""Assessing Puerto Rico's Fiscal Policies""; ""Financing Economic Development""; ""Trade Performance and Industrial Policy""; ""Restoring Growth: The Policy Options""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780815715542
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Economy of Puerto Rico : Restoring Growth
Language:
English
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