Panama, El Salvador and Ecuador import maize for domestic consumption. They paid in dollarized currencies for imports grown on ghost acres (i.e., not in-country) and reliant on virtual water from these other areas embedded in the tonnes of arriving maize. What, in any of this, is “domestic”?
In the same breadth, their governments are told to: promote policies that increase the inflow of remittances but reverse the outflow of skilled talent; mitigate the takeover of domestic sectors by multi-national corporations, but nevertheless ensure the corporations are properly taxed; and couple social protection to production more effectively, but also undertake specific degrowth needed in these unsustainable economies.
“Their” “sectors” “there”?
WHEN COMPLEX IS AS SIMPLE AS IT GETS 