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  1. El Salvador Economics
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  3. Strengths
  4. Very few. El Salvador requires massive injections of aid to survive.
  5. Weaknesses
  6. Civil war caused $2 billion worth of damage. Over-dependence on coffee, which accounts for 90% of exports. Rural areas desperately poor, with rising numbers of landless rural poor.