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The increase in formal employment is among the most outstanding achievements. Data from the Instituto Salvadoreño del Seguro Social (ISSS) indicate that there are 962,575 workers registered on the payroll. This number had not been observed before and shows how the employer sector is interested in betting on the country.

On february 6, the Minister of Labor and Social Welfare, Rolando Castro, began the Employment Tour in the eastern part of the country, now he returns to participate in the hiring of hundreds of people who, thanks to this initiative, will now have a decent job to support their families.

The World Bank Group (WBG) Board of Executive Directors today endorsed the Country Partnership Framework (CPF) 2023-2027 for El Salvador. This strategy seeks to promote inclusive and sustainable growth by strengthening the country's human capital and resilience to natural phenomena and climate change.

The Ministerio de Economía (MINEC) is successfully advancing in its purpose of achieving economic development that has a direct impact on salvadoran families and generates a better quality of life.

The Ministry of Labor continues to receive resumes from salvadorans interested in joining the private sector labor market.

The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted everyone's lives and its effects on employment have lingered in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries for almost two years.

The Ministerio de Trabajo y Previsión Social launched an electronic call for applications, through which it has made available a form with questions about personal data, studies, work, skills and abilities of the applicants.

The Ministry of Labor confirmed that it has placed 12 thousand new jobs throughout the national territory and the State has created more than 60 thousand, providing opportunity to those who need it most.

99% of the almost 1.6 million companies operating in the region are MSMEs; 83% are micro and 16% are small and medium-sized enterprises. This important sector represents more than 65% of the economically active population, and this is the main source of employment generation in the region, according to the Economic Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on MSMEs in Central America report by the Centro Regional de Promoción de la MIPYME (CENPROMYPE).

According to statistics published by a report of the Banco Central de Reserva (BCR), between february 2021 and the same month of this year, more than 60 thousand jobs were created in the formal sector of the economy.