Puerto Rico: A Case-Study of Change in an Underdeveloped Area

Lewis, Gordon Κ.

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“…One policy that was discussed in Puerto Rico, but never pursued, was a proposal to greatly reduce trading with the United States and replace it with trade with other Caribbean countries. A professor at the University of Puerto Rico, one Gordon Lewis, was such a proponent (see Lewis (1955)). David Ross (1957, p. 100), who at the time worked for the Economic Development Administration of Puerto Rico, wrote a reply to Lewis, stating, We may have, in short, nothing to lose but money by giving up our trading connections with the U.S.-but we need the money.…”

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What Ever Happened to the Puerto Rican Sugar Manufacturing Industry?

Bridgman¹,

Maio²,

Schmitz³

2012

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Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Arilton Teixeira FUCAPE, Brazil *We thank the members of the Research Library of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis-particularly Shawne Osborne-who have found, procured, and delivered many, many documents, reports, and so on for this project. We also thank Sam Brunell for excellent research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis or the Federal Reserve System.

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What Ever Happened to the Puerto Rican Sugar Manufacturing Industry?

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Maio²,

Schmitz³

2012

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“…161-162) emphasised the economic and technical difficulties faced by most subsidiaries in undertaking successful operations (such as the market dimension and changes in the economic environment with the resumption of trade) as drivers of the sale. However, in an article published in 1955, Lewis (1955, pp. 625-627) stressed managerial incapacity as one of the reasons for the sale, as well as the view that government-owned firms would produce a dangerous increase in the island's wage structure because they paid higher wages than private firms.…”

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“…Another important economic policy objective was to attract foreign capital for the industrialisation process, particularly from the continental United States (Perloff 1950, 1953, p. 51). In this respect, Lewis (1955, p. 625) and Goldsmith et al . (1974, p. 144) stress that an important reason for abandoning nationalisation was to attract investors from the mainland.…”

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“…A number of studies of industrial and administrative policy in Puerto Rico in the 1950s (Chase 1951;Ojuda 1954;Ross 1957;Baer 1959;Lewis 1955) and 1960s (Goodsell 1965;Ross 1966) noted the sale of SOEs between 1948 and 1950 2 . However, none of these works provided an analysis of the process or the objectives of the privatisation policy implemented.…”

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“…Contemporary economic analyses of privatisation have so far neglected an important, early case of large-scale privatisation: the one carried out by the first democratically elected governor of Puerto Rico in the late 1940s, which appears to have been the first large-scale privatisation policy implemented in a democratic regime1. A number of studies of industrial and administrative policy in Puerto Rico in the 1950s (Chase 1951; Ojuda 1954; Ross 1957; Baer 1959; Lewis 1955) and 1960s (Goodsell 1965; Ross 1966) noted the sale of SOEs between 1948 and 19502. However, none of these works provided an analysis of the process or the objectives of the privatisation policy implemented.…”

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The first privatisation policy in Latin America: selling state-owned enterprises in 1948-1950 Puerto Rico

Bel¹

2011

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In the 1940s, when the governor of Puerto Rico was still appointed by the U.S. president, a large state-owned enterprise (SOE) sector was established. Later, in 1948Later, in -1950, the island's first elected government privatised these SOEs. This paper documents both the creation of the SOE sector and its privatisation, and analyses the role played by ideology, political interests and economic concerns in the decision to privatise. Whereas ideological factors might have played a significant role in the building of the SOE sector, the privatisation process was driven by economic factors. In the cement sector, the competing private firm was more efficient and the SOEs in other sectors with no private competitors in the island showed permanent losses.

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Nurturing the Citizens of the Future: Milk Stations and Child Nutrition in Puerto Rico, 1929–60

González

2015

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Between the 1930s and 1960s Puerto Rico was transformed from a marginal United States territory into an industrialised 'showcase of development'. This article investigates the organisation of milk station programmes on the island during this crucial period and how these reflected the circulation of child welfare knowledge, nutrition expertise and public health practices. During the Depression, these perspectives fostered a recast of the eugenic regeneration ideologies motivating medical assessments of and sanitary interventions with Puerto Rico's rural poor since the nineteenth century. Innovations in nutrition knowledge and an emerging rural hygiene movement highlighted the negative health effects of the island's monocrops economy. In this context, the nourishment of children's bodies assumed symbolic and instrumental significance for the reconfiguration of colonial and developmental models promoted by the new Popular Democratic Party (PPD). The experience of public health professionals in relief work during the 1930s contributed to the articulation of food and nutrition as key elements of this party's populist discourse. Programmes like milk stations became part of strategies to rear and manage the labour force needed in the industrial development model promoted by the PPD. From the perspective of poor Puerto Ricans, however, they were part of the materialisation of its promise of social justice for the poorer classes.

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Puerto Rico: A Case-Study of Change in an Underdeveloped Area

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What Ever Happened to the Puerto Rican Sugar Manufacturing Industry?

The first privatisation policy in Latin America: selling state-owned enterprises in 1948-1950 Puerto Rico

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