El Salvador: Selected Issues: Background Notes

August 9, 2005

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El Salvador: Selected Issues: Background Notes, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2005) accessed November 12, 2024

Summary

This Selected Issues paper presents background notes on El Salvador’s economic growth, national savings, and implications of the Central American Free-Trade Agreement with the United States (CAFTA). The paper describes possible factors behind sluggish growth in El Salvador in recent years, and suggests that the medium-term growth outlook hinges on further structural reforms, including steps to improve competitiveness and further strengthen the public finances. The paper also highlights the factors behind the sharp decline in domestic savings in recent years, suggesting a possible Dutch-disease phenomenon.

Subject: Balance of payments, Consumption, Domestic savings, Exports, Gross fixed investment, International trade, National accounts, Remittances

Keywords: Central America, Consumption, CR, Domestic savings, Export, Exports, Family remittance, Gross fixed investment, Investment, Investment opportunity, ISCR, Net export, Private sector savings, Productivity, Productivity-enhancing reform, Remittances, Saving

Publication Details

Pages:

17
Volume:

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DOI:

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Series:

Country Report No. 2005/270
Stock No:

1SLVEA2005002
ISBN:

9781451834741
ISSN:

1934-7685

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