Editing Operation Bootstrap (section)

{{Short description|Series of projects which transformed the economy of Puerto Rico}}
{{other uses|Bootstrapping|Bootstrapping (law)}}
{{sidebar Economy of Puerto Rico}}
'''Operation Bootstrap''' ({{langx|es|Operación Manos a la Obra}}) is the name given to a series of projects which transformed the [[economy of Puerto Rico]] into [[industrialized country|an industrial]] and [[developed country|developed]] one. The [[federal government of the United States]] together with what is known today as the [[Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company]] set forth a series of ambitious economical projects that evolved Puerto Rico into an industrial high-income territory compared to the region. Bootstrap is still considered the economic model of Puerto Rico as the island has still not been able to evolve into a [[knowledge economy]].{{efn|FPH (in Spanish) "[...] nuestro actual modelo económico continúa fundamentado en los principios establecidos por Operación Manos a la Obra."<ref name="manos-a-la-obra-fph">{{cite web |title=Operación "Manos a la Obra" (1947) |url=http://www.enciclopediapr.org/esp/article.cfm?ref=06102003&page=1 |publisher=Fundación Puertorriqueña para las Humanidades |language=es |access-date=October 6, 2013 }}</ref>}}