Caribbean & Central America - February 2009 (ISSN 1741-4458)

The Central American Bank for Economic Intergration (CABEI) has published its economic forecasts for 2009 and is particularly gloomy about the prospects for El Salvador. It forecasts weak real GDP growth of  between 0.8%-1.8% annually in 2009, well down on last year's result of 3.2%. On that basis, El Salvador will be the worst performer in Central America in 2009.

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