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Roundtable For a New Economy

Roundtable for a New Economy is an initiative spearheaded by the Center for a New Economy in San Juan, Puerto Rico that seeks to build the foundation for a future economic development policy for Puerto Rico. The initiative is being supported by a steering committee of academics from the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University (IPD), the Brookings Institution (BI), and the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University.
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This novel project combines top-notch research with well-thought civic engagement harnessed towards transcending the current juncture and restructuring the island’s outdated economic model. The initiative will use first-class research as the foundation for a series of activities that will engage a wide swath of Puerto Rican stakeholders in considering, discussing, crafting and implementing the optimal policy solutions to the current conundrum.

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After the First Author’s Meeting held at IPD in New York in 2014, seventeen scholars, experts on development, from more than a dozen prestigious institutions gathered on September 4th, 2015 to present their findings to build the foundaton for the future economic policy in Puerto Rico. They gathered to assess how to jump start a process that can produce a new Industrial Policy for Puerto Rico, one that can identify, create and foster opportunities for future economic growth.

Among the topics discussed were: the constraints and opportunities presented by the current fiscal and economic crisis; what type of industrial policy design would work best for Puerto Rico; and how to craft a productive dialogue among key stakeholders to build agreement on key policies.

  • Andrew Schrank
    Speaker
  • Barry Bosworth
    Speaker
  • Charles Sabel
    Speaker
    Maurice T. Moore Professor of Law
    Columbia University
  • Deepak Lamba Nieves
    Speaker
  • Eileen Segarra
    Speaker
  • Eva Paus
    Speaker
    Professor
    Economics
    Mount Holyoke College
  • Gustavo Bobonis
    Speaker
  • Harold Toro
    Speaker
  • Jorge Katz
    Speaker
    Professor
    Economic Growth and Innovation
    University of Chile
  • Maria Enchautegui
    Speaker
  • Maria Victoria del Campo
    Speaker
  • Michael Piore
    Speaker
  • Mike Soto-Class
    Speaker
  • Orlando Sotomayor
    Speaker
  • Robert Devlin
    Speaker
    Director
    Department of Effective Public Management
    OAS
  • Sergio Marxuach
    Speaker
  • Avinash Persaud
    Speaker
    Founder and Chairman
    Intelligence Capital Limited, Warwick Commission
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