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Operation Bootstrap (Spanish: Operación Manos a la Obra) is the name given to a series of projects which transformed the economy of Puerto Rico into an industrial and 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.^[a]

^ "Operación "Manos a la Obra" (1947)" (in Spanish). Fundación Puertorriqueña para las Humanidades. Retrieved October 6, 2013.

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