Puerto Rico’s fiscal crisis is the direct result of poor governance and mismanagement, and an inefficient welfare system and over-regulation is only making things worse, argued a five-member expert panel meeting in Washington.
The Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority’s board of directors approved Tuesday a plan mapping out its finances through the end of the fiscal year that is anchored on the approval of the bill establishing a new credit-issuing entity that is already facing opposition.
Former Washington, D.C. Mayor Anthony A. Williams, who steered the nation’s capital from financial ruin to prosperity, told U.S. lawmakers Tuesday that solving the immediate fiscal crisis, while absolutely essential, will not alone be sufficient to bring Puerto Rico back to the position of economic self-sufficiency.
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