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POLÍTICA FISCAL FEDERAL EN PUERTO RICO: MODELO CORRELACIONAL DE CONSECUENCIAS ELECTORALES

Peck, Richard Blanco - In: Observatorio de la Economía Latinoamericana (2010) 129

Revisión de los datos del estudio Política Fiscal Federal en Puerto Rico: Modelo Correlacional de Consecuencias Electorales del 1978 y su primera actualización en el 2006. Con dicha correlación buscamos probar que el aumento de fondos federales en el presupuesto está directamente...

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A contemporary public affairs approach to changing and improving police services in Puerto Rico: the administration, organisation, and community triumvirate

Goltz, Jeffrey W. - In: International Journal of Public Policy 10 (2014) 4/5, pp. 257-278

In 2011, the Civil Rights Division within the US Department of Justice published a report that summarised an investigation of the Puerto Rico Police Department (PRPD). The report states that the PRPD is broken in a number of critical and fundamental respects. Moreover, Puerto Rico has...

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Wind characteristics on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico

Altaii, K; Farrugia, R.N - In: Renewable Energy 28 (2003) 11, pp. 1701-1710

Wind data was measured at a number of sites on the Caribbean island of Puerto Rico over a 24 calendar-month time frame. The wind data gathered at four sites is envisaged to shed new light on the wind characteristics of this tropical island with an emphasis on the climate’s suitability for wind...

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Integración Vertical y Productividad:La Intensificación de Capital en Puerto Rico durante las décadas del 1960-70

Muriente, Carlos Liard - In: REVISTA DE ECONOMÍA DEL CARIBE (2012)

Este artículo tiene como objetivo utilizar la técnica de integración vertical como alternativa a las medidas de productividad tradicionales basadas en la metodología de Insumo-Producto. La manera directa o esquema de Leontief sufre de ciertas limitaciones, las cuales tienen como base la...

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Energy Recovery from Scrap Tires: A Sustainable Option for Small Islands like Puerto Rico

Laboy-Nieves, Eddie N. - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 5, pp. 3105-3121

Puerto Rico generates and disposes nearly five million/year scrap tires (ST), of which 4.2% is recycled and 80% is exported. The Island has one of the world highest electrical service tariff ($0.28 kWh), because of its dependency on fossil fuels for power generation. The Government has not...

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Implementing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in Puerto Rico: A Feasibility Study.

Peterson, Anne; Johnson, Bryan; Moulton, Benjamin E.; … - Mathematica Policy Research - 2010

This study assesses the potential impact of establishing the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in Puerto Rico, including the administrative burden and costs to both the U.S. government and the government of Puerto Rico.

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Fetal and infant origins of diabetes and ill health: Evidence from Puerto Rico's 1928 and 1932 hurricanes

Sotomayor, Orlando - In: Economics & Human Biology 11 (2013) 3, pp. 281-293

A natural experiment is employed to analyze the relationship between living standards, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Results show that shocks generated by two powerful tropical storms striking Puerto Rico during the late 1920s and early 1930s had long-term consequences consistent with...

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A Colonial Bank under Spanish and American Sovereignty: The Banco Español de Puerto Rico, 1888-1913

Martín-Aceña, Pablo; Montaud, Inés Roldán de - Asociación Española de Historia Económica - AEHE - 2014

United States. The establishment of the Bank was plagued with difficulties and during its first decade of existence it met … transfer of sovereignty was traumatic since the Bank lost its issue monopoly and had to adjust to US banking legislation. In … 1905, its name was changed to Banco de Puerto Rico and its by-laws were reformed. The last years of the Bank’s life were …

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Putting adaptive capacity into the context of people’s lives: a case study of two flood-prone communities in Puerto Rico

López-Marrero, Tania; Yarnal, Brent - In: Natural Hazards 52 (2010) 2, pp. 277-297

Recent developments in the vulnerability literature have contested the use of technical solutions as the sole adaptive strategies to reduce natural hazard impact; this literature emphasizes the need to attend to the wider everyday risks to which people are exposed and that aggravate hazard...

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The “new masculinity”: Addiction treatment as a reconstruction of gender in Puerto Rican evangelist street ministries

Hansen, Helena - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 11, pp. 1721-1728

This article, based on ethnographic fieldwork including twelve months of participant observation and 428 interviews with 84 converts and leaders in Pentecostal ministries founded and run by former addicts in Puerto Rico, describes redefined masculinity as a treatment for addiction. Industrial...

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