Origins of the Puerto Rico Fiscal Crisis

Marc Joffe and Jesse Martinez
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Annals of Computational Economics, 2016

Abstract: Puerto Rico’s heavy public-sector debt burden is the unintended consequence of a series of policy decisions extending back to the US takeover of the island in 1898. Rather than placing Puerto Rico on a path to statehood, Congress imposed a series of uniqu

Date: 2016
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