This book presents empirical evidence, from the Central American integration process, that economic integration can play an important role as a national development strategy. The first chapter shows that the reduction of gender inequality in a country generates impulses of economic growth in that and the other member countries. A similar result is obtained in relation to the increase in the quality of education, which has repercussions in increasing the growth rates of all countries. The analysis of the monetary policy transmission mechanism in a dollarized country, such as El Salvador, shows...
This book presents empirical evidence, from the Central American integration process, that economic integration can play an important role as a nation...