Evenett, Simon J.Simon J.Evenett2023-04-132023-04-132003https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/70181With the move towards democracy and measures to liberalise domestic sectors and foreign trade, policymakers in Central America and elsewhere have taken a greater interest in the linkages between consumer protection policies and economic and sustainable development. This has manifested itself in a greater commitment to implementing and enforcing national consumer protection statutes and to adhering more closely to the UN Guidelines For Consumer Protection (United Nations 1999).enStrengthening institutional and capacity building in the area of Competition and Consumer Policy for the Central American countries: Cases of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, and Nicaragua, United Nations Conference on Trade and Developmentwork report