El Salvador

A Technical Assistance (TA) Mission from the Regional Technical Assistance Center for Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic, visited the city of San Salvador, El Salvador, on August 13–24, 2018, to provide TA to the Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador (BCRES) on compiling annual accounts by institutional sectors (AAIS) from 2014 onwards, as part of the data series from the base year of 2005. In March 2018, the BCRES published a dataset of quarterly and annual national accounts series by economic activity; a monthly volume indicator; backcasted series from 1990–2014; and Supply and Use Tables (SUT) from 2005 and 2014, with a base year of 2005. As part of the dataset to be prepared and disseminated in the new 2005 base year, the authorities requested TA to compile annual accounts focusing on institutional sectors starting in 2014.

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El Salvador

IMF Staff Country Reports ◽

10.5089/9781513544519.002 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 20 (169) ◽

Author(s):

Keyword(s):

Dominican Republic ◽

El Salvador ◽

Central America ◽

Economic Activity ◽

Technical Assistance ◽

Data Sources ◽

Reserve Bank ◽

Institutional Sector

A Technical Assistance (TA) mission was conducted by the Regional Technical Assistance Center for Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic (CAPTAC-DR) from February 26–March 2, 2018, to assist the Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador (BCRES) with concluding the compilation of the Monthly Volume Indicator of Economic Activity (Índice Mensual de Volumen de la Actividad Económica – IMVAE)1 for dissemination and the development of annual institutional sector accounts (AISAs). The purpose of this mission was to follow up on the recommendations made by a previous mission that took place in September 2017: to compile the IMVAE with base year 2005, and to assess the data sources available for AISA compilation, using the data previously compiled for 2005 as background. The mission considered the BCRES decision to start regular compilation as of 2014.

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El Salvador

IMF Staff Country Reports ◽

10.5089/9781513548982.002 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 20 (216) ◽

Author(s):

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

El Salvador ◽

Technical Assistance ◽

Analytical Tool ◽

National Accounts ◽

Input Output ◽

Output Table ◽

Reserve Bank ◽

Made In

A technical Assistance (TA) Mission was conducted by CAPTAC-DR1 from May 14 to 18, 2018 with the objective of supporting the Central Reserve Bank of El Salvador (CBR) in its efforts to strengthen its national accounts statistics for decision making. The TA mission covered the following topics: compilation of an Input-Output Table (IOT) for 2014; as well as to follow up on the recommendations made in previous TA missions to disseminate Supply and Use Tables (SUT) for 2015 and thereafter, as part of the national accounts’ series with base year 2005. In addition, the mission provided training to the Department of National Accounts (DNA) team of the CBR in the methodological and conceptual aspects necessary for the analysis and application of the IOT as a statistical and analytical tool.

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La Marcha del Orgullo en El Salvador: (Re)Construcción de la memoria, del mito fundador a la realidad histórica

REVISTA CONTROVERSIA ◽

10.54118/controver.vi215.1212 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 159-199

Author(s):

Thierry Maire

Keyword(s):

El Salvador ◽

Central America ◽

Online Survey ◽

Sexual Diversity ◽

Far Right ◽

National Pride ◽

San Salvador ◽

Trans People ◽

The Us ◽

Founding Myth

La Marcha del Orgullo en El Salvador, la más antigua del istmo centroamericano, tiene su narrativa anclada en un hecho histórico nacional, estrechamente ligado a la guerra civil que abrumó al país durante los años 80. El concepto de las marchas deriva de los acontecimientos de EE. UU. Entonces, ¿por qué la marcha salvadoreña se presenta como una manifestación de conmemoración de un hecho nacional más que en relación con su antecesora estadounidense, particularmente en un país tan dependiente del gigante del Norte? Para responder a ese cuestionamiento, investigué qué tanto los miembros de la diversidad sexual en San Salvador conocen sobre la historia de su marcha, de su relación con ese hecho nacional y de la Gay Pride (Orgullo Gay) neoyorkina. Agregué a ese análisis cuantitativo llevado a cabo a través de una encuesta en línea, una investigación biográfica alrededor de los fundadores de la marcha. Los vínculos directos, aunque desvanecidos y a veces negados, que los ligan con EE. UU., bien podrían explicar cómo se ideó realmente la Marcha del Orgullo. La narrativa actual procede, entonces, de una re(construcción histórica de la marcha, parcialmente por razones estratégicas, en respuesta al discurso opositor de la derecha conservadora del país. The ‘Marcha del Orgullo’ in El Salvador: (Re)Building Memory, from the Founding Myth to the Historic Reality Abstract: The ‘Marcha del Orgullo’ in El Salvador, the oldest in Central America, is supposed to have been founded in tribute to trans people kidnapped and slaughtered during the Civil War in the 80’s. Nonetheless the mere concept of Gay Prides marches took its origin in those realized in the US. Why is it then that El Salvador one should be more autonomous in its foundation? That is especially nagging when one considers the closeness of El Salvador to the US. To solve this enigma, I first undertook an online survey among members of the lgbtiq community in San Salvador, to look at what they knew about the historical narration of their national Pride. I then investigated more into the personalities of the founders of the event. I discovered some very direct relations between them and US-related activists and NGO, which could explain the foundation of the Salvadorian Pride, but I also came to understand why the narrative of the event is framed in order to suppress this US influence due to the opposite stance of far-right conservatives activists. Keywords: El Salvador, Pride parade, human rights, LGBT, sexual diversity.

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Framework Administered Account for Selected Fund Activities - Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic Technical Assistance Center (CAPTAC-DR) Subaccount

Policy Papers ◽

10.5089/9781498336130.007 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 09 ◽

Author(s):

Keyword(s):

Dominican Republic ◽

Central America ◽

Technical Assistance ◽

Financial Resources ◽

Executive Board ◽

New Framework

In March 2009, the Fund established a new Framework Administered Account to administer external financial resources for selected Fund activities (the “SFA Instrument”). The financing of activities under the terms of the SFA Instrument is implemented through the establishment and operation of a subaccount within the SFA. The subaccount for the Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic Technical Assistance Center (CAPTAC-DR) would be the first one established under the SFA. This paper requests Executive Board approval to establish the CAPTAC-DR subaccount (the “Subaccount”) under the terms of the SFA Instrument.

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Five New Species of Cyclocephala Latreille From North and Central America (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)

The Canadian Entomologist ◽

10.4039/ent98295-3 ◽

1966 ◽

Vol 98 (3) ◽

pp. 295-302 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

H. F. Howden ◽

S. Endrödi

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

El Salvador ◽

Central America ◽

West Coast ◽

The West ◽

San Salvador

AbstractFive new species of Cyclocephala are described as follows: C. miamiensis from Florida, U.S.A., C. arenosa from Sonora, Mexico, C. sinaloae from the west coast of Mexico from Sonora to Jalisco, C. forcipulata from Sinaloa and Nayarit, Mexico, and C. virkkii from San Salvador, El Salvador.

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Saint Óscar Romero, Liberation Theology, and Human Rights in El Salvador

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History ◽

10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.013.610 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Michael Cangemi

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

El Salvador ◽

Central America ◽

The United States ◽

Political Repression ◽

Social Violence ◽

San Salvador ◽

Shortwave Radio ◽

The Us ◽

The Church

Saint Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (b. Ciudad Barrios, San Miguel, El Salvador, August 15, 1915; d. San Salvador, El Salvador, March 24, 1980) was the seventh Archbishop of San Salvador. During his episcopate (February 22, 1977–March 24, 1980), Romero gained international renown for his human rights activism, advocacy for the poor, and denunciation of El Salvador’s political repression and violence. Romero was one of Latin America’s most influential political and social voices and routinely drew thousands of people to San Salvador’s Metropolitan Cathedral, while his homilies were broadcast across Central America on shortwave radio. In 1978, members of Britain’s Parliament, the United States Congress, and the US press supported Romero’s nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his efforts to halt the economic, political, and social violence that plagued El Salvador and, more broadly, Central America, during the late 1970s. In his final homily, delivered on March 23, 1980, Romero directly addressed members of the Salvadoran military and police forces, “in the name of this suffering people whose cries rise to heaven more loudly each day, I implore you, I beg you, I order you in the name of God: stop the repression.” The following day, Romero was murdered by Salvadoran government forces while he celebrated Mass at the Church of Divine Providence in San Salvador. His assassination sent shockwaves through Central America, and over one hundred thousand people attended his funeral. In May 2015, Pope Francis beatified Romero and elevated him to sainthood on October 14, 2018.

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Problems of Developing Municipalities’ Financial Balances on the Example of the “General Government” Sector

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/202022205011 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 222 ◽

pp. 05011

Author(s):

Alexey Pasynkov

Keyword(s):

Economic Activity ◽

Value Added ◽

National Accounts ◽

System Of National Accounts ◽

Government Sector ◽

General Government ◽

State Budgets ◽

Regional Authorities ◽

The City ◽

Municipal Level

The article deals with the problems of developing financial balances at the municipal level, based on the principles of constructing the System of National Accounts. The problems of methodological nature and information content of financial balances are described, possible ways of their solution are proposed. The author’s methodology for determining the share of the “General Government” sector in the economy of municipalities has been developed. In the absence of data on value-added areas, proposed to use wage data by types of economic activity. On this basis, we calculated the contribution of local and state budgets in the expenditures of the “General Government” sector in the municipalities of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Yugra. On average, financing of wages in this sector is provided by federal and regional authorities at 60.86% in the region. The smallest value among municipalities is in the city of Pokachi (9.88%), the greatest dependence on the financing of the region and the federation is in the city of Khanty-Mansiysk (85.5%), Surgut (over 65%) and Yugorsk (slightly less than 64%).

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