APPENDIX VI

APPENDIX VI

"Limited skilled labor forces, and managerial and entrepreneurial skills."

Again we disagree completely.

appendix.

As

indirect

indication,

San

an

Juan

See

but

perhaps

persuasive

has

some

employment

alone

20

agencies and/or executive management recruitment

firms.

Approximately 85% of middle management is Puerto Rican.

“Large public sectors, ranging from 24 percent in Puerto
Rico

to

Appendix

46%
I,

in Guam."
page 80)

First,

the Draft

Report

(in

states that the public sector

the Trust Territory ranges up to

57%.

Second,

in

Puerto

Rico's public sector employment is not much greater than

that

of

many states.

Hawaii,

for example,

has

21%

employment in the public sector.
Apart
we

from these "constraints" mentioned in the Report,
include

two

positive

factors

which

were

not

specifically acknowledged.
A.

Educational System,

would

simply

students
entire

in

state

For details, see Appendix.

that

Puerto

Rico

post-graduate institutions

has

more

than

population of any other territory and

students

per

capita enrolled in

We

the
more

institutions

of

higher education than the U. S. national average.

B.

Manufacturing,

commerce, trade,

In 1983, some 58%

of Puerto Rico's Gross State Product came from these
sectors,
employment

990028 1

which employ 38% of the work force.
is

diversified

80

among

the

Also,
various

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