The Limits of Economic Policy in El Salvador

Geske Dijkstra

Chapter 4 in Economic Maladjustment in Central America, 1993, pp 53-66 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Despite rapid economic growth for three decades, at the outset of the 1980s El Salvador’s population remained overwhelmingly poverty-stricken. In 1980 68 per cent lived below the poverty line, unable to satisfy their basic needs (ECLAC, 1983). The majority of rural families were undernourished and lacked essential services. This poverty resulted from extreme concentration of asset ownership and failure of the government to take significant steps to improve the distribution of income.

Keywords: Gross Domestic Product; Minimum Wage; Foreign Trade; Indirect Taxis; Counterinsurgency Strategy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1993
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-22529-3_4

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