World economies that are either stagnant or not growing as much as they should need to go back to basics, build upon their resources and take stock of what they have to offer the rest of the planet to be able to move forward.
Puerto Rico’s economy may be showing signs that it is finally emerging from the recession it has been under for the past five years, but conditions still remain difficult for many as the island pulls out of its slump, Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William Dudley said Friday in a presentation during the E-3 Summit of the Americas conference in San Juan.
When Puerto Rico’s current recession started in 2006, it set off one of the most significant migrations of island residents in recent history, with some 37,000 people leaving in search for a better life that year. In the last five years that number has blown up to more than 300,000, the Migrant Profile released by the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute showed on Monday.
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