Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico (Spanish for 'Rich Port'; abbreviated PR, Taino: Boriken, Borinquen), officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Spanish: Estado Libre Asociado de Puerto Rico, lit. 'Free Associated State of Puerto Rico') and from 1898 to 1932 also called Porto Rico in English, is an unincorporated territory of the United States. It is located in the northeast Caribbean Sea, approximately 1,000 miles (1,600 km) southeast of Miami, Florida. Puerto Rico is an archipelago among the Greater Antilles located between the Dominican Republic and the U.S. Virgin Islands; it includes the eponymous main island and several smaller islands, such as Mona, Culebra, …

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Cato Institute · 14 November 2024 English

The goal of the 2025 tax extensions should be to keep tax rates low and meet calls for additional pro-growth tax cuts, such as a lower corporate tax rate and …

year in excise tax revenue from the US Treasury to Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands. In addition to subsidizing


WHO: World Health Organization · 13 November 2024 English

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territory, including east Jerusalem, Oman, Poland, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent


Cato Institute · 12 November 2024 English

As Congress reconvenes post-election, a critical agenda item is likely to be an emergency funding request to replenish disaster relief funds in the wake of Hurricanes Helene and Milton. With …

Louisiana, and New York) and two territories (Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands) account for nearly three-quarters


12 November 2024 English

This annual report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) reviews the FY 2024 progress in advancing healthcare equity for rural, Tribal, and geographically isolated (RTGI) communities. …

of MA data; this is especially beneficial for Puerto Rico, which has the highest MA penetration rate across Rhode Island, Vermont), 2 (New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands), and 3 (Delaware, District CMS staff visited the Caribbean territories of Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands in April 2024. During beneficial not only for mainland areas but also for Puerto Rico, which has the highest MA penetration rate across statistical areas, including for facilities in Puerto Rico.59 60 61 62 These changes aim to ensure more


World Bank Group · 11 November 2024 English

The 2024 Statistical Performance Indicators (SPI) release includes data from 2023 with updates to previous years, incorporating the latest information from organizations such as the World Bank, IMF, and UN …

Monaco, New Caledonia, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, San Marino, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), St.


ICC: International Chamber of Commerce · 11 November 2024

This report, commissioned by the International Chamber of Commerce, analyzes the economic impacts of climate-related extreme weather events, focusing on physical asset destruction and human capital loss from 2014 to …

(Hurricane Harvey, US), third (Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico), and fifth (Hurricane Irma, US) largest events 3 India $112.2 4 Japan $90.8 5 Puerto Rico* $87.3 6 Germany $65.4 7 Italy weather events than others. *We acknowledge that Puerto Rico is a territory of the US rather thanPublic © country. However, the EM-DAT dataset categorises Puerto Rico separately, which is why we have listed it independently


UN-Habitat: UN Human Settlements Programme · 11 November 2024 English

25: Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and …

initiatives, such as the Caño Martín Peña63 in Puerto Rico, and community development housing groups, like


World Bank Group · 8 November 2024 English

This paper examines the implications of the IMF’s April 2024 macro-fiscal forecast updates on government health expenditure (GHE) across 170 economies through 2029, covering nearly all years remaining to achieve …

SAR, China; Kosovo; Libya; Macao SAR, China; Puerto Rico; Somalia; Taiwan, China; Yemen). Furthermore


NBER: National Bureau of Economic Research · 7 November 2024 English

Many multinational firms (MNEs) pay low or no corporation tax in high-tax countries because they shift taxable income to tax havens. We incorporate nonconvex costs of profit shifting and unobserved …

Taxes On Investment And Income Shift- ing To Puerto Rico, The Review of Economics and Statistics 80(3):


World Bank Group · 6 November 2024 English

Women, Business and the Law 2024 is the 10th annual study measuring the enabling conditions affecting women's economic opportunities in 190 economies. This edition introduces two new indicators-Safety and Childcare …

29.2 65.6 Kenya 83.8 * 70.0 45.0 60.6 Puerto Rico (US) 83.8 80.0 29.2 66.9 St. Lucia 83.8 ✔ 76.9 Dominica 62.5 France 100.0 Malta 91.3 Puerto Rico (US) 83.8 Burundi 76.3 Haiti 61.3 Germany 100


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