Case Study 3 - El Salvador : Participation in Macroeconomic Policy Making and Reform

1992 was both a year of bitterness and hope. A decade of civil war had devastated the country but left no clear winner or loser; it was time to try peace. The governing ARENA party and the FMLN rebels signed peace accords requiring the demobilizati...

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Published: Washington, DC 2012
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spelling okr-10986-113162021-04-23T14:02:55Z Case Study 3 - El Salvador : Participation in Macroeconomic Policy Making and Reform World Bank MACROECONOMIC POLICY POLITICAL PROCESSES DEMOCRATIZATION DECISION MAKING PROCESSES PARTNERSHIP EDUCATION SECTOR BASIC EDUCATION PROGRAMS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT PUBLIC EDUCATION COMMUNITY SELF MANAGEMENT EDUCATION SYSTEMS ACTION LEARNING BASIC EDUCATION COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION COMMUNITY SCHOOLS CURRICULUM DROP-OUT RATES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION POLICY EDUCATION REFORM EDUCATION SECTOR EDUCATION SERVICES EDUCATION SYSTEM EDUCATIONAL REFORM EFFECTIVE MEANS ENROLLMENT ENROLLMENT RATES FORMAL EDUCATION LEARNING LITERACY LOCAL COMMUNITIES LOCAL TEACHERS MANAGERS NATIONAL EDUCATION PARENTS POLICY DEVELOPMENT POLICY REFORM POSITIVE IMPACT POVERTY REDUCTION PRIMARY SCHOOLS QUALITY OF EDUCATION RURAL AREAS RURAL SCHOOLS SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION SCHOOLS SECONDARY EDUCATION SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIAL GROUPS TEACHER TEACHERS TEACHING VIOLENCE YOUTH 1992 was both a year of bitterness and hope. A decade of civil war had devastated the country but left no clear winner or loser; it was time to try peace. The governing ARENA party and the FMLN rebels signed peace accords requiring the demobilization of the FMLN and its incorporation into the political process in return for democratic reforms by state institutions. The need for "concertaci?n" or consensual-decisionmaking was often invoked but, given deep divisions, not easily achieved. Cecilia Gallardo de Cano had been in office since 1989 as Minister of Education and her country was changing quickly. Her party's most vociferous opponents were coming down from the mountains and into the office buildings and conference rooms of San Salvador. She was a reform proponent from the "modernizing" wing of the conservative ARENA party. Her ministry, perhaps more than any other, found a way to reach across the chasm of distrust and build effective partnerships for reform. The Ministry of Education (MOE) quickly identified expanding access to and quality of basic education as a central policy objective both to rebuild national unity in the post-war era and to promote the long-term economic development. 2012-08-13T14:44:17Z 2012-08-13T14:44:17Z 2003-03 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/03/2864389/case-study-3-el-salvador-participation-macroeconomic-policy-making-reform Social development notes. -- Note no. 79 (March 2003) http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11316 English Social Development Notes; No. 79 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Brief Publications & Research Latin America & Caribbean El Salvador
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topic MACROECONOMIC POLICY
POLITICAL PROCESSES
DEMOCRATIZATION
DECISION MAKING PROCESSES
PARTNERSHIP
EDUCATION SECTOR
BASIC EDUCATION PROGRAMS
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT
PUBLIC EDUCATION
COMMUNITY SELF MANAGEMENT
EDUCATION SYSTEMS ACTION LEARNING
BASIC EDUCATION
COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
COMMUNITY SCHOOLS
CURRICULUM
DROP-OUT RATES
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
EDUCATION POLICY
EDUCATION REFORM
EDUCATION SECTOR
EDUCATION SERVICES
EDUCATION SYSTEM
EDUCATIONAL REFORM
EFFECTIVE MEANS
ENROLLMENT
ENROLLMENT RATES
FORMAL EDUCATION
LEARNING
LITERACY
LOCAL COMMUNITIES
LOCAL TEACHERS
MANAGERS
NATIONAL EDUCATION
PARENTS
POLICY DEVELOPMENT
POLICY REFORM
POSITIVE IMPACT
POVERTY REDUCTION
PRIMARY SCHOOLS
QUALITY OF EDUCATION
RURAL AREAS
RURAL SCHOOLS
SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION
SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION
SCHOOLS
SECONDARY EDUCATION
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
SOCIAL GROUPS
TEACHER
TEACHERS
TEACHING
VIOLENCE
YOUTH
spellingShingle MACROECONOMIC POLICY
POLITICAL PROCESSES
DEMOCRATIZATION
DECISION MAKING PROCESSES
PARTNERSHIP
EDUCATION SECTOR
BASIC EDUCATION PROGRAMS
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT
PUBLIC EDUCATION
COMMUNITY SELF MANAGEMENT
EDUCATION SYSTEMS ACTION LEARNING
BASIC EDUCATION
COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION
COMMUNITY SCHOOLS
CURRICULUM
DROP-OUT RATES
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
EDUCATION POLICY
EDUCATION REFORM
EDUCATION SECTOR
EDUCATION SERVICES
EDUCATION SYSTEM
EDUCATIONAL REFORM
EFFECTIVE MEANS
ENROLLMENT
ENROLLMENT RATES
FORMAL EDUCATION
LEARNING
LITERACY
LOCAL COMMUNITIES
LOCAL TEACHERS
MANAGERS
NATIONAL EDUCATION
PARENTS
POLICY DEVELOPMENT
POLICY REFORM
POSITIVE IMPACT
POVERTY REDUCTION
PRIMARY SCHOOLS
QUALITY OF EDUCATION
RURAL AREAS
RURAL SCHOOLS
SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION
SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION
SCHOOLS
SECONDARY EDUCATION
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
SOCIAL GROUPS
TEACHER
TEACHERS
TEACHING
VIOLENCE
YOUTH
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Case Study 3 - El Salvador : Participation in Macroeconomic Policy Making and Reform
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relation Social Development Notes; No. 79
description 1992 was both a year of bitterness and hope. A decade of civil war had devastated the country but left no clear winner or loser; it was time to try peace. The governing ARENA party and the FMLN rebels signed peace accords requiring the demobilization of the FMLN and its incorporation into the political process in return for democratic reforms by state institutions. The need for "concertaci?n" or consensual-decisionmaking was often invoked but, given deep divisions, not easily achieved. Cecilia Gallardo de Cano had been in office since 1989 as Minister of Education and her country was changing quickly. Her party's most vociferous opponents were coming down from the mountains and into the office buildings and conference rooms of San Salvador. She was a reform proponent from the "modernizing" wing of the conservative ARENA party. Her ministry, perhaps more than any other, found a way to reach across the chasm of distrust and build effective partnerships for reform. The Ministry of Education (MOE) quickly identified expanding access to and quality of basic education as a central policy objective both to rebuild national unity in the post-war era and to promote the long-term economic development.
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title Case Study 3 - El Salvador : Participation in Macroeconomic Policy Making and Reform
title_short Case Study 3 - El Salvador : Participation in Macroeconomic Policy Making and Reform
title_full Case Study 3 - El Salvador : Participation in Macroeconomic Policy Making and Reform
title_fullStr Case Study 3 - El Salvador : Participation in Macroeconomic Policy Making and Reform
title_full_unstemmed Case Study 3 - El Salvador : Participation in Macroeconomic Policy Making and Reform
title_sort case study 3 - el salvador : participation in macroeconomic policy making and reform
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url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2003/03/2864389/case-study-3-el-salvador-participation-macroeconomic-policy-making-reform
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