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A poverty level three times the national average leaves Puerto Rico especially vulnerable if service cuts and tax increases go too far. Part III of a five-part series.

Economists point to past successes and failures as Puerto Rico's Oversight Board focuses on conservative approaches. Part II of a five-part series.

The Oversight Board is following a belt-tightening strategy that some economists warn may squelch economic growth, putting bonds back into restructuring. Part I of a five-part series.

Puerto Rico, with more than $70 billion of bonds at stake, has become a testing ground of austerity for an economy in decline.

The index gained 0.4% year-over-year in October.

Gov. Wanda Vázquez's bill aims to prevent the commonwealth from pursuing debt practices that have gotten it into trouble.

The website aims to provide information about the restructured bonds and to advertise them as creditworthy.

Protesters targeted investors in prisons and Puerto Rico bonds at the Museum of Modern Arts' opening.

The board also said the local government's $18 billion in the bank doesn't give it additional money to pay bondholders.

The island's economic index "is approaching the behavior that existed prior to the hurricane.”