Is our current political status limiting our economic potential? That was the controversial question that was asked during last year’s ALPFA Puerto Rico’s marquee event, when a panel of five senior executives from the corporate, nonprofit and entrepreneurial sectors answered questions about our island’s most pressing problem: How to stop the infamous “brain drain.” It […]
Puerto Rico Planning Board President Luis García-Pelatti told lawmakers over the weekend that the island will experience negative economic growth of 1.3 percent and 4.2 percent, respectively in Fiscal 2015 and 2016, when the scenario is looked at from a pessimistic point of view.
During the opening day of its annual convention Thursday, the Puerto Rico Manufacturers Association delivered a list of recommendations — including cutbacks, government restructuring and fiscal measures — to administration officials, in hopes of doing its part to help the island pull out of its economic crisis.
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