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"It is important that the rules are not changed"

Ondine Smulders, senior editor of The Economist, has said that the future economic scenario for El Salvador look gray: a slowdown in growth of up to 2.5% in 2009, due to the possible decline in consumption, exports and remittances.

Friday, September 12, 2008

Predicting the future is not easy, says Smulders, especially since the pre-electoral climate, as well as the world economic slowdown, cause investor perspectives to change and they need to have a clear rules of engagement to continue investing in the country.

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