El Salvador urges investors to think again

El Salvador is going all out to put an end its recent past of high levels of violence and sub-par economic growth and become a credible destination for foreign investment. The government, led by president Salvador Sánchez Cerén, has unleashed a new offensive on crime and is actively engaging international institutions such as the IMF and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to set out a reform agenda to address the country’s financial distress and its chronically low competitiveness..