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El Salvador and its Informal Commercial Activity Nvard Patrikyan, Mario Martinez

El Salvador and its Informal Commercial Activity Nvard Patrikyan, Mario Martinez. Geographical Map of El Salvador. Overview. Total population 7,066,403 Language: Spanish GDP per capita: $6,400 GDP ( Purchasing Power Parity ): $45,34 Billion Budget: Revenues: $3.928 Million

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El Salvador and its Informal Commercial Activity Nvard Patrikyan, Mario Martinez

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  1. El Salvador and its Informal Commercial Activity Nvard Patrikyan, Mario Martinez

  2. Geographical Map of El Salvador

  3. Overview • Total population 7,066,403 • Language: Spanish • GDP per capita: $6,400 • GDP (Purchasing Power Parity): $45,34 Billion • Budget: • Revenues: $3.928 Million • Expenditures: $4.226 Million • Unemployment rate: 6.3% • Inflation rate: 4.7% • Balance Account: (-1.119 billion) • Exports: $4.55 billion • Imports: $9.74 billion Est. 2008 E.S. Census, CIA fact book 2008

  4. Summary Reason for establishing an informal shack Street Invasion Municipal Challenges Obtaining city permits Conflict of Interest Dangers Opinion about informal trading

  5. Reason for establishing an informal shack - No employment, family trait, little education, better earnings than a regular job, less labor work • Street Invasion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd_lVPgT0PQ • Municipal Challenges - Displacement, confiscation of merchandise, difficult to obtain temporal permission to have public sale on the street

  6. Obtaining city permits -No permits, tedious procedures to come up to agreements, deal with bureaucracy, syndicate governance • Conflict of Interest - Political parties influencing in lieu of promises - Police corruption or abuse • Dangers -“Renta” group of individuals who enforce a monthly fee to merchants in order to protect them from criminals. - Robberies - Unsafe structures 

  7. Roberto Andrade 46

  8. First Interview:

  9. Claudia Solórzano 23

  10. Second Interview

  11. Anonymous

  12. Third Interview

  13. Opinion about informal trading - Government efficiency - Providing source of employment - Education - Occupational training - Social services - Adjust minimum pay rate - Increase exports - Reduce imports - Increase investing - Reduce excessive credit consuming

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