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Puerto Rico remains the worst jurisdiction in the United States in economic freedom.

The Island is closer to Mexico than to the United States and Canada in the Economic Freedom of North America 2023 report. Puerto Rico ranked last for the second consecutive year among the 51 U.S. jurisdictions included in Economic Freedom of North America 2023. This report, published by Canada’s Fraser Institute, measures the degree of economic freedom in 93 provincial or state governments in Canada, the United States of America, and Mexico.

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ILE
May 7, 2024

“Economic freedom has nothing directly to do with Puerto Rico's status situation," ILE executive says

Framed by Puerto Rico's recidivism as the U.S. jurisdiction with the least economic freedom, the co-authors of the Economic Freedom of North America (EFNA) 2023 report, in addition to presenting solutions and recognizing gray spots in the free market model, agreed that to achieve prosperity, the island's status should not be defined.

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Efraín Montalbán Ríos
April 26, 2024

Study ranks San Juan as hardest US city to do business in

The Center for the Study of Economic Liberty at Arizona State University recently published the “Doing Business North America 2022 Report,” which measures the ease of doing business in 83 major U.S. cities. Now in its fourth edition, the report included San Juan, Puerto Rico, for the first time as a result of the Puerto Rico Institute for Economic Liberty’s (ILE) collaboration with the center, according to the ILE.

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News is my Business
October 26, 2023
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