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El Salvador

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ICSID and Latin America

Latin American states are actively exploring alternative mechanisms to the ICSID state-investor dispute mechanism which they claim has investor bias.

3 December 2013 | At Issue
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IMF takes steps to control cryptocurrency policies

Fund warns cryptocurrencies are a threat to global financial stability as El Salvador makes Bitcoin legal tender.

9 December 2021

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World Bank arbitration mechanism ICSID rules in favour of El Salvador

ICSID, a World Bank arm for investor-state dispute arbitration, ruled that the $250 million case brought by Pac Rim Cayman against El Salvador in 2009 was without merit.

31 January 2017

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ICSID problems in the spotlight

Civil society challenges ICSID role in El Salvador mining dispute as international lawyer accuses the arbitration forum of being “seriously flawed”

20 June 2014

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Loans for El Salvador emergency

The World Bank was accused of “behaving like vultures, like loan sharks” by US NGO 50 Years is Enough Campaign after it offered to help finance emergency relief efforts in El Salvador in the wake of January’s earthquake.

6 February 2001

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El Salvador to dollarise

El Salvador is planning to make the US dollar legal tender in January as part of efforts to strengthen the country’s economy.

12 December 2000
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