9780815715504-0815715501-Restoring Growth in Puerto Rico: Overview and Policy Options

Restoring Growth in Puerto Rico: Overview and Policy Options

ISBN-13: 9780815715504
ISBN-10: 0815715501
Author: Barry Bosworth, Susan Collins, Miguel Soto-Class
Publication date: 2006
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Format: Paperback 151 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780815715504
ISBN-10: 0815715501
Author: Barry Bosworth, Susan Collins, Miguel Soto-Class
Publication date: 2006
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Format: Paperback 151 pages

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Restoring Growth in Puerto Rico: Overview and Policy Options (ISBN-13: 9780815715504 and ISBN-10: 0815715501), written by authors Barry Bosworth, Susan Collins, Miguel Soto-Class, was published by Brookings Institution Press in 2006. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other Development & Growth (Economics, Economic Conditions, Economic Policy & Development) books. You can easily purchase or rent Restoring Growth in Puerto Rico: Overview and Policy Options (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Development & Growth books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.39.

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As a territory of the United States, Puerto Rico enjoys the benefits of key U.S. legal, monetary, security, and tariff systems, and its residents are U.S. citizens. In the decades following World War II, Puerto Rico emerged as one of the world's fastest-growing economies. From 1950 to 1970 per capita income nearly doubled as a percentage of the U.S. average, making the island the richest economy in Latin America. Since the mid-1970s, however, labor force attachment has declined, economic growth has slowed, and the island's living standards have fallen further behind those on the mainland. Today more than half of all Puerto Rican children live below the U.S. poverty level. Why did Puerto Rico's economic progress stall? And more important, what can be done to restore growth? A number of overlapping concerns—labor supply and demand, entrepreneurship, the fiscal situation, financial markets, and trade——are at the heart of its economic difficulties. This is a companion volume to Restoring Growth: The Economy of Puerto Rico (Brookings, 2006), in which economists from Puerto Rico and the United States examine the island's economy and propose strategies for sustainable growth. This monograph summarizes the analyses published in that volume and presents a set of policy recommendations to increase employment, improve education, upgrade infrastructure, and fix government finances. Contributors include James Alm (Georgia State University), Barry P. Bosworth and Gary Burtless (Brookings Institution), Susan M. Collins (Brookings Institution and Georgetown University), Steven J. Davis (University of Chicago), María E. Enchautegui, Juan Lara, Luis A. Rivera- Batiz, and Orlando Sotomayor (University of Puerto Rico), Richard B. Freeman and Robert Z. Lawrence (Harvard University), Helen F. Ladd (Duke University), Rita Maldonado-Bear and Ingo Walter (New York University), Francisco L. Rivera-Batiz (Columbia University), and Miguel A. Soto-Class (Center for the New Economy).


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