El Salvador: Macroeconomics of the poverty, inequality and growth

Abstract

El Salvador has experienced strong reductions in poverty and inequality, in a context of scant growth, by almost 30 years; in sharp contrast with another cases of good indicators of poverty and inequality, but with a strong growth, as Asian Tigers. This paper –which summarizes another much more extent research- assess the macroeconomic channel in which remittances affects some measures of poverty and inequality, and economic growth in El Salvador. It includes some proposals to restart growth and avoid a reversion in poverty and inequality.