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EL SALVADOR FORUM PHOTOS
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FUNDEs Roberto Rubio addresses the First
National Forum of SAPRI in El Salvador. Some 340 organizations
representing a wide spectrum of Salvadoran society participated in the
deliberations on 27-28 August 1998. The Forum followed 18 months of local
outreach and organizing by the SAPRIN Steering Committee, including a
series of sectoral workshops on structural adjustment in which the key
issues requiring assessment were identified. |
| Much of the work of the Forum was conducted in three Work Groups, each of which focused on the effects of a significant adjustment measure. These measures included the impact of privatization on the price, availability and quality of public services; the effects of greater labor-market "flexibility" on employment, purchasing power, women, youth and social conditions; and the impact of the liberalization of the financial sector on the cost of and access to credit for various economic sectors. |  |
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The Work Groups were themselves sub-divided so as to create an environment that encouraged participation. Here representatives of various sectors and regions discuss the consequences of public-sector privatization and recommend policy measures. SAPRIN researchers and facilitators documented and integrated the sub-group conclusions and reported them to the Forum plenary. |