El Salvador

BMI View: The Banco Central de Reserva de El Salvador's preliminary real GDP estimates show 4.2% growth in 2006, which was above our 3.4% forecast. On a sectoral basis, agriculture... 2007-05-03

El Salvador's new short-term political risk rating of 73.5 reflects the fairly broad consensus on the respect for constitutional law, as well as a fairly sanguine foreign policy outlook.... 2007-05-03

Guatemala enters our new political ratings system in last place in Central America with a 66.0 short-term score. This is due in large part to uncertainty ahead of this year's elections,... 2007-05-01

BMI View: The growth of remittance flows from workers overseas is relenting, which may be bad news for economic growth. We are not revising our forecasts for 2007 and 2008 yet,... 2007-04-26

Over the past six months, BMI has undertaken a review of our Short-Term and Structural Political Ratings. This is an ongoing process which will be fully completed by the end of... 2007-04-25

The highly controversial Biofuel agreement between the US and Brazil has been praised by El Salvadorian President Tony Saca. Along with Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and St. Kitts... 2007-04-16

BMI View: This month, we are introducing a new methodology for our economic risk ratings. In this edition of Central America Monitor, the new ratings for each country, including... 2007-04-16

BMI View: Inflation came in at 4.79% y-o-y in February, down from a 15-month high of 5.55% in January. Tighter government spending and lower oil prices should translate into lower... 2007-04-10

BMI View: Thanks in part to a record year for remittance inflows (US$3.32bn, a 17.2% increase), El Salvador's current account deficit in 2006 came in narrower than we had expected,... 2007-04-09

Relations between El Salvador and Guatemala are strained, following the murder of three El Salvadorean deputies to the Central American parliament. Four Guatemalan police officers... 2007-03-12