Publication: El Salvador : Policy Dialogue and Consensus Building Non-Lending Technical Assistance
Date
2009-01
ISSN
Published
2009-01
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
The Non-lending Technical Assistance
(NLTA) to support policy dialogue and consensus building in
El Salvador was a just-in-time response to support the
Bank s re-engagement in the country in the context of a
transition period characterized by: a) the political
transition process in the country including the presidential
and Congress pre-election and election periods and the
change of administration; b) the impact of the global
economic crisis hitting a highly vulnerable local economy;
and c) the preparation of the Bank s Country Partnership
Strategy (CPS) aiming at re-engaging and reactivating a
program in a country with minimum activity in the past four
years. A country characterized with a highly polarized
political system was going through a historic transition
period with a new government coming from the opposition
party for the first time in 20 years. The transition that
took place in mid 2009 was also marked with the strong hit
of the global economic crisis that impacted on the overall
country s macroeconomic performance and seriously limited
the capacity of the government to respond to urgent needs.
Within this context the proposed NLTA was conceived to
provide support to the country policy dialogue by
facilitating the discussion of critical aspects in the
context of the adverse economic and social situation.
Citation
“World Bank. 2009. El Salvador : Policy Dialogue and Consensus Building Non-Lending Technical Assistance. © Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/entities/publication/c2b57645-2ad3-5889-a52d-3bfb106d47b5 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”