El Salvador faces a great opportunity to accelerate poverty reduction. Although poverty rates have dropped significantly over the past two decades, extreme poverty remains a challenge: by 2023, around ...

Onlookers gather at the scene of a homicide in downtown San Salvador, El Salvador’s capital ... In the vacuum of weak governance and poverty in their home country, gang members reproduced ...

In a dramatic shift from its previous environmental stance, El Salvador is reconsidering its ... between 2% and 3.5% 27% of Salvadorans live in poverty 70% of the workforce operates in the ...

Well, his thesis is that El Salvador is not really as poor as people would have you believe, but rather an economically-backward country where the incidence of extreme poverty is not unlike that of ...

However, rural poverty and high rates of violence and homicide are putting El Salvador's children at risk. Innocent children have been forced to flee their homes due to violence, gangs and crushing ...

World Bank is committed to supporting El Salvador navigate a challenging international economic context, with focus on reducing extreme poverty, increasing employment generation, improving human ...

For years, a complex crisis of violence, gangs and crippling poverty has driven families to flee El Salvador and seek safety in the United States. By all accounts, the country is one of the world’s ...