El Salvador - Systematic Country Diagnostic : Addressing Vulnerabilities to Sustain Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth

The 2015 Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD) concluded that El Salvador was “trapped” in vicious cycles of low poverty reduction and growth and argued for a “big push” in six priority areas. Three mutually reinforcing cycles hampered growth and shared prosperity: (i) low growth and violence, (ii)...

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Main Authors: Robayo-Abril, Monica, Barroso, Rafael
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Language:English
Published: Washington, DC: World Bank 2022
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/757931649104112878/El-Salvador-Systematic-Country-Diagnostic-Addressing-Vulnerabilities-to-Sustain-Poverty-Reduction-and-Inclusive-Growth
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spelling okr-10986-372692022-04-11T15:55:29Z El Salvador - Systematic Country Diagnostic : Addressing Vulnerabilities to Sustain Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth Robayo-Abril, Monica Barroso, Rafael SYSTEMIC COUNTRY DIAGNOSTIC MACROECONOMICS The 2015 Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD) concluded that El Salvador was “trapped” in vicious cycles of low poverty reduction and growth and argued for a “big push” in six priority areas. Three mutually reinforcing cycles hampered growth and shared prosperity: (i) low growth and violence, (ii) low growth and migration, and (iii) low growth, savings, and investments. The SCD concluded that a big reform push in six priority areas was needed to break these cycles. Despite progress in some of these areas, previous governments have not built consensus for the “big push” of simultaneous reforms to break the cycles. This SCD Update (the Update) builds on the SCD as follows: (i) updating the country context and assessing progress in poverty and growth, (ii) broadening the analysis to include a vulnerability lens, and (iii) rerunning the prioritization framework to confirm or update priorities. 2022-04-06T15:44:44Z 2022-04-06T15:44:44Z 2022-03-31 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/757931649104112878/El-Salvador-Systematic-Country-Diagnostic-Addressing-Vulnerabilities-to-Sustain-Poverty-Reduction-and-Inclusive-Growth http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37269 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Systematic Country Diagnostic Country Focus Latin America & Caribbean El Salvador
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MACROECONOMICS
Robayo-Abril, Monica
Barroso, Rafael
El Salvador - Systematic Country Diagnostic : Addressing Vulnerabilities to Sustain Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth
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description The 2015 Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD) concluded that El Salvador was “trapped” in vicious cycles of low poverty reduction and growth and argued for a “big push” in six priority areas. Three mutually reinforcing cycles hampered growth and shared prosperity: (i) low growth and violence, (ii) low growth and migration, and (iii) low growth, savings, and investments. The SCD concluded that a big reform push in six priority areas was needed to break these cycles. Despite progress in some of these areas, previous governments have not built consensus for the “big push” of simultaneous reforms to break the cycles. This SCD Update (the Update) builds on the SCD as follows: (i) updating the country context and assessing progress in poverty and growth, (ii) broadening the analysis to include a vulnerability lens, and (iii) rerunning the prioritization framework to confirm or update priorities.
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author Robayo-Abril, Monica
Barroso, Rafael
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Barroso, Rafael
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title El Salvador - Systematic Country Diagnostic : Addressing Vulnerabilities to Sustain Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth
title_short El Salvador - Systematic Country Diagnostic : Addressing Vulnerabilities to Sustain Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth
title_full El Salvador - Systematic Country Diagnostic : Addressing Vulnerabilities to Sustain Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth
title_fullStr El Salvador - Systematic Country Diagnostic : Addressing Vulnerabilities to Sustain Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth
title_full_unstemmed El Salvador - Systematic Country Diagnostic : Addressing Vulnerabilities to Sustain Poverty Reduction and Inclusive Growth
title_sort el salvador - systematic country diagnostic : addressing vulnerabilities to sustain poverty reduction and inclusive growth
publisher Washington, DC: World Bank
publishDate 2022
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/757931649104112878/El-Salvador-Systematic-Country-Diagnostic-Addressing-Vulnerabilities-to-Sustain-Poverty-Reduction-and-Inclusive-Growth
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