{"id":10862,"date":"2019-12-02T15:50:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T14:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/?p=10862"},"modified":"2025-08-11T19:58:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T17:58:24","slug":"economic-growth-in-guatemala-positive-projection-in-the-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/economic-growth-in-guatemala-positive-projection-in-the-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic growth in Guatemala: positive projection in the region"},"content":{"rendered":"Guatemala&#8217;s economic growth outlook is one of the highest in the region. According to the Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC), Guatemala&#8217;s economic growth (3.3%) will be surpassed only by the Dominican Republic (5%) and Panama (3.7%).\n\nOn the other hand, the Bank of Guatemala estimates a higher economic growth, located at 3.4%.\n\nIn both calculations, the economic performance of the country is positioned above the economic growth of the Central American region for this year, which is calculated at 2.5%.\n\nThe favorable news continues, since ECLAC considers that by 2020, Guatemala&#8217;s growth will be around 3.2%.\n\nThis performance for the country responds to the booming market that is there and that, in contrast, other countries in the region suffer thunderous falls.\n\nThe National Strategy for Financial Inclusion 2019-2023 was recently unveiled, which projects economic impulse mechanisms that seek to favor access to financial services for all the country&#8217;s population. This type of actions constitutes the recent efforts of various sectors to build more efficient, robust and open markets.\n\nAlthough it is important to recognize these advances, it is also necessary to point out that in order for this growth to continue and even be overcome, in addition to favoring its effects reaching all sectors of the population, changes and novelties in legislation that favors the modernization and transparency of the market itself cannot be ignored.\n\nSuch is the case of the Competition Law, to which Guatemala committed itself by 2016, or the lack of construction of highways connecting various points of the country. Until these points are addressed from the Legislative, a larger and more inclusive economy is being slowed down, so it is expected greater participation of the corresponding commissions within Congress to achieve legislative initiatives that favor these points.\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10865 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Marielos-Figueroa.-050718-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"170\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/?p=7959\">Marielos Figueroa Tavares<\/a>\nAssociate\nGarc\u00eda &amp; Bod\u00e1n\nGuatemala","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guatemala&#8217;s economic growth outlook is one of the highest in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39941,"href":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10862\/revisions\/39941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garciabodan.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}