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THE FIRST PRIVATIZATION POLICY IN A DEMOCRACY: SELLING STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES IN 1948-1950 PUERTO RICO.
No full textIn the 1940s, when the Governor of Puerto Rico was appointed by the US President and the Puerto Rican government was answerable only to the US Federal government, a large state-owned enterprise (SOE) sector was established on the island. Public services such as water, transportation and energy were nationalized, and several new manufacturing SOEs were created to produce cement, glass, shoes, paper and chalkboard, and clay products. These enterprises were created and managed by government-owned corporations. Later on, between 1948 and 1950, under the island’s first elected Governor, the government sold these SOEs to private groups. This paper documents both the creation and the privatization of the SOE sector in Puerto Rico, and analyzes the role played by ideology, political interests, and economic concerns in the decision to privatize them. Whereas ideological factors might have played a significant role in the building of the SOE sector, we find that privatization was driven basically by economic factors, such as the superior efficiency of private firms in the sectors where the SOEs operated, and by the desire to attract private industrial investment to the Puerto Rican economy.Public enterprise, Privatization, Industrial policy,Puerto Rico.
Porto Rico reports : cases adjudged in the Supreme Court of Porto Rico.
No full textMode of access: Internet.Translation of: Puerto Rico. Supreme Court. Decisiones de Puerto Rico
Historical research and documentation of the grounds and gardens of La Casa Blanca, San Juan De Puerto Rico
No full textLa Casa Blanca (The White House) is the old fortress house of Juan Ponce de Leon’s family, located in the city of San Juan Bautista de Puerto Rico also known as Old San Juan. The house was originally built in the early 1500s as one of the first permanent constructions on the islet of San Juan. Both the house and its grounds have undergone several physical changes through their almost 500 years of existence. The house (which today is a museum) has been restored and documented, including the surrounding buildings which were built during the 17th and 18th Centuries and which form the Casa Blanca building complex.Today several garden areas exist on the grounds of Casa Blanca. These gardens have the potential to enhance the site more than they do presently, not only in the aesthetic experience that the visitor to Casa Blanca could have because of the beauty of the place, but also in the experience of history and legend associated with Juan Ponce de Leon.Lamentably, with the possible exception of the Hispano-Moorish garden located next to the central patio of Casa Blanca, the remaining garden areas have not been formally documented for purposes of correct design development or so that the visitor may appreciate and understand their history. In this creative project the author has documented all the information available on Casa Blanca and its gardens from written sources, plans, and from oral interviews obtained in Puerto Rico and the United States.The original intent of the author was not only to document the gardens and grounds of Casa Blanca, but also to create a restoration/rehabilitation design for the best use of this area. This scheme would be in accordance with their historic, legendary, and aesthetic relationship to Casa Blanca and Old San Juan as part of the total cultural heritage of Puerto Rico. Instead, this research of Casa Blanca's gardens' history in itself became the focus of the creative project due to the large amount of time and effort necessary to locate and compile the information. A rehabilitation design plan was not possible in the time frame for this project. However, this investigation opened new areas of study, as it dealt with the overall unrecorded garden history of Puerto Rico which was essential to document before a restoration/rehabilitation plan could be made. The author hopes that this study, as the first documentation of a Puerto Rican garden, will initiate the recording of the total garden history of Puerto Rico.Thesis (M.L.A.)Department of Landscape Architectur
SERRANO, Juan (Engr.)
No full textCorrespondence of Engr. Juan Serrano, Gen. Alvaro Obregón, and Mr. Fernando Torreblanca, in which the former thanks Gen. Obregón for the MANIFESTO TO THE NATION he sent and comments on some of his points. Engr. Juan Serrano thanks Mr. Fernando Torreblanca for the packet of copies of the Manifesto by Gen. Obregón that he sent to him. Engr. Juan Serrano tells Gen. Alvaro Obregón about the development of the presidential campaign in the Altar, Sonora region. Reply thanking him for his collaboration. Engr. Juan Serrano thanks Gen. Alvaro Obregón for sending him a copy of the message to the American people and comments on some of his points. Telegrams between Gen. Alvaro Obregón and Engr. Juan Serrano, concerning the mailing of some documents. / Correspondencia entre el Ing. Juan Serrano, el Gral. Alvaro Obregón y el Sr. Fernando Torreblanca, en la cual el primero agradece al Gral. Obregón el MANIFIESTO A LA NACION que le envió y le comenta algunos puntos del mismo. El Ing. Juan Serrano agradece al Sr. Fernando Torreblanca el paquete de ejemplares del Manifiesto del Gral. Obregón que le envió. El Ing. Juan Serrano comenta al Gral. Alvaro Obregón el desarrollo de la campaña presidencial en la región de Altar, Son. Respuesta agradeciendo la colaboración. El Ing. Juan Serrano agradece al Gral. Alvaro Obregón el envío de un ejemplar del mensaje al pueblo norteamericano y le comenta algunos puntos. Telegramas entre el Gral. Alvaro Obregón y el Ing. Juan Serrano, relativos al envío de unos documentos
SERRANO, Juan (Engr.)
No full textCorrespondence of Engr. Juan Serrano, Gen. Alvaro Obregón, and Mr. Fernando Torreblanca, in which the former thanks Gen. Obregón for the MANIFESTO TO THE NATION he sent and comments on some of his points. Engr. Juan Serrano thanks Mr. Fernando Torreblanca for the packet of copies of the Manifesto by Gen. Obregón that he sent to him. Engr. Juan Serrano tells Gen. Alvaro Obregón about the development of the presidential campaign in the Altar, Sonora region. Reply thanking him for his collaboration. Engr. Juan Serrano thanks Gen. Alvaro Obregón for sending him a copy of the message to the American people and comments on some of his points. Telegrams between Gen. Alvaro Obregón and Engr. Juan Serrano, concerning the mailing of some documents. / Correspondencia entre el Ing. Juan Serrano, el Gral. Alvaro Obregón y el Sr. Fernando Torreblanca, en la cual el primero agradece al Gral. Obregón el MANIFIESTO A LA NACION que le envió y le comenta algunos puntos del mismo. El Ing. Juan Serrano agradece al Sr. Fernando Torreblanca el paquete de ejemplares del Manifiesto del Gral. Obregón que le envió. El Ing. Juan Serrano comenta al Gral. Alvaro Obregón el desarrollo de la campaña presidencial en la región de Altar, Son. Respuesta agradeciendo la colaboración. El Ing. Juan Serrano agradece al Gral. Alvaro Obregón el envío de un ejemplar del mensaje al pueblo norteamericano y le comenta algunos puntos. Telegramas entre el Gral. Alvaro Obregón y el Ing. Juan Serrano, relativos al envío de unos documentos
SERRANO, Juan
No full textLetter from Mr. Juan Serrano to Gen. Alvaro Obregón sending his regards on New Year's and urging him to run for President. Thanking response. / Carta del Sr. Juan Serrano al Gral. Alvaro Obregón, felicitándolo por el Año Nuevo e instándolo a lanzar su candidatura a la Presidencia. Respuesta agradeciendo
SERRANO, Juan
No full textTelegram from Mr. Juan Serrano to Gen. Alvaro Obregón congratulating him on his return to Sonora. Thank-you reply. File S-010 / Telegrama del Sr. Juan Serrano al Gral. Alvaro Obregón, felicitándolo por su regreso a Sonora. Respuesta agradeciendo. Exp. S-01
SERRANO, Juan
No full textLetter from Mr. Juan Serrano to Gen. Alvaro Obregón sending his regards on New Year's and urging him to run for President. Thanking response. / Carta del Sr. Juan Serrano al Gral. Alvaro Obregón, felicitándolo por el Año Nuevo e instándolo a lanzar su candidatura a la Presidencia. Respuesta agradeciendo
The Climate for Business Development and Employment Growth in Puerto Rico
No full textEmployment rates in Puerto Rico range from 55 to 65 percent of U.S. rates during the past thirty years. This huge employment shortfall holds for men and women, cuts across all education groups, and is deeper for persons without a college degree. The shortfall is concentrated in the private sector, especially labor-intensive industries that rely heavily on less educated workers. Motivated by these facts, we identify several factors that undermine employment growth and business development, including high minimum wage requirements, a history of tax incentives for capital-intensive activities, a host of regulatory entry barriers, and a business climate in which profitability and survival too often rest on the ability to secure favors from the government,. We pay close attention to the permitting process whereby the government oversees and regulates construction and real estate development projects, the commercial use of equipment and facilities, and the periodic renewal of various business licenses. Based on interviews with experts and participants in the permitting process, and supplemented by other sources, we compile evidence that the permitting process is excessively slow and costly, fraught with uncertainty, subject to capricious outcomes, susceptible to corruption, and prone to manipulation by business rivals and special interest groups.
Education and Intergenerational Mobility: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Purerto Rico
No full textThe existence of intergenerational spillovers to public investments in schooling is often assumed in policy discussions regarding economic development. However, few studies to date have forwarded convincing evidence that externalities exist for developing countries. In this paper, we address this issue using the arguably exogenous schooling consequences of a major hurricane strike on Puerto Rico in the 1950s. Using data from the US. Census of Population for Puerto Rico, we first find that individuals on to margin of school entry at the time of the storm and residing in the most exposed regions of the island had significantly lower levels of education as adults than their counterparts in less exposed regions. Using the interaction of wind speed and age at the time of the storm as an instrument, we then find that maternal education is related to the probability that a child speaks English. Our estimates imply an additional year of education raise the probability that a child speaks English by between 4.3 and 4.5 percentage points, c approximately 24 to 28 percent. We find no conclusive evidence that parental education increases the probability that a child is enrolled, literate, or in an age-appropriate grad, On balance, these findings suggest that education is responsible at least in part for the persistence of human capital across generations.education, intergenerational mobility, natural experiment, hurricane
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