El Salvador is increasingly paying attention to the quality of its regulations

By Portal & Asociados

Produced by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the third edition of Government at a Glance Latin America and the Caribbean provides the latest available evidence on public administrations and their performance in the LAC region and compares it to OECD countries.

According to the publication, in 2019 El Salvador adopted new policy documents that establish the principles of their regulatory policy. As part of their recent regulatory reforms, El Salvador reformed its institutional settings and established new bodies responsible for the promotion of regulatory policies. Additionally, El Salvador has established their first-ever obligations to conduct Regulatory Impact Assessments (RIA) for at least some subordinate regulations. The Law of Better Regulation assigned the Regulatory Improvement Agency the responsibility to scrutinise the quality of RIA’s according to the standards established in the Law.

The OECD report publication includes indicators on public finances and economics, public employment, centres of government, regulatory governance, open government data, public sector integrity, public procurement and for the first time core government results (e.g. trust, inequality reduction).