Republic of El Salvador Country Environmental Analysis : Improving Environmental Management to Address Trade Liberalization and Infrastructure Expansion

El Salvador, a small country with limited national resources, needs to grow through its main comparative advantage, which is its strong culture of competitive businesses. To do so, however, the government needs to ensure that the best affordable en...

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spelling okr-10986-339262021-04-23T14:01:58Z Republic of El Salvador Country Environmental Analysis : Improving Environmental Management to Address Trade Liberalization and Infrastructure Expansion World Bank ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY WATER AND SANITATION NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FREE TRADE AGREEMENT DR-CAFTA WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT INSTITUTIONS TRADE LIBERALIZATION POLICY COORDINATION ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION DIRTY INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT POLICY LOAN GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS WATER USE AIR POLLUTION WATER POLLUTION El Salvador, a small country with limited national resources, needs to grow through its main comparative advantage, which is its strong culture of competitive businesses. To do so, however, the government needs to ensure that the best affordable environmental management is in place to secure sustainable economic development. The benefits of further improvements to the environmental institutional and regulatory frameworks will be substantial not only to facilitate and sustain trade and infrastructure expansion, but in terms of preserving the natural resource base on which economic growth depends. Moreover, while DR-CAFTA is expected to bring new possibilities for investment and trade, the agreement will also raise the scrutiny and monitoring by El Salvador's trade partners regarding environmental compliance. Maintaining low compliance rates would add unnecessary friction and raise the regulatory risks for investing in the country. 2020-06-17T15:08:35Z 2020-06-17T15:08:35Z 2006-03-20 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/795601468273650092/Republic-of-El-Salvador-country-environmental-analysis-improving-environmental-management-to-address-trade-liberalization-and-infrastructure-expansion http://hdl.handle.net/10986/33926 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work Economic & Sector Work :: Country Environmental Analysis Latin America & Caribbean El Salvador
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topic ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
WATER AND SANITATION
NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
FREE TRADE AGREEMENT
DR-CAFTA
WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
INSTITUTIONS
TRADE LIBERALIZATION
POLICY COORDINATION
ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION
DIRTY INDUSTRY
DEVELOPMENT POLICY LOAN
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
WATER USE
AIR POLLUTION
WATER POLLUTION
spellingShingle ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY
WATER AND SANITATION
NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
FREE TRADE AGREEMENT
DR-CAFTA
WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
INSTITUTIONS
TRADE LIBERALIZATION
POLICY COORDINATION
ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION
DIRTY INDUSTRY
DEVELOPMENT POLICY LOAN
GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS
WATER USE
AIR POLLUTION
WATER POLLUTION
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Republic of El Salvador Country Environmental Analysis : Improving Environmental Management to Address Trade Liberalization and Infrastructure Expansion
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El Salvador
description El Salvador, a small country with limited national resources, needs to grow through its main comparative advantage, which is its strong culture of competitive businesses. To do so, however, the government needs to ensure that the best affordable environmental management is in place to secure sustainable economic development. The benefits of further improvements to the environmental institutional and regulatory frameworks will be substantial not only to facilitate and sustain trade and infrastructure expansion, but in terms of preserving the natural resource base on which economic growth depends. Moreover, while DR-CAFTA is expected to bring new possibilities for investment and trade, the agreement will also raise the scrutiny and monitoring by El Salvador's trade partners regarding environmental compliance. Maintaining low compliance rates would add unnecessary friction and raise the regulatory risks for investing in the country.
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title Republic of El Salvador Country Environmental Analysis : Improving Environmental Management to Address Trade Liberalization and Infrastructure Expansion
title_short Republic of El Salvador Country Environmental Analysis : Improving Environmental Management to Address Trade Liberalization and Infrastructure Expansion
title_full Republic of El Salvador Country Environmental Analysis : Improving Environmental Management to Address Trade Liberalization and Infrastructure Expansion
title_fullStr Republic of El Salvador Country Environmental Analysis : Improving Environmental Management to Address Trade Liberalization and Infrastructure Expansion
title_full_unstemmed Republic of El Salvador Country Environmental Analysis : Improving Environmental Management to Address Trade Liberalization and Infrastructure Expansion
title_sort republic of el salvador country environmental analysis : improving environmental management to address trade liberalization and infrastructure expansion
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2020
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/795601468273650092/Republic-of-El-Salvador-country-environmental-analysis-improving-environmental-management-to-address-trade-liberalization-and-infrastructure-expansion
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