On May 18th, the Senate voted to let 30, 000 more foreign computer programmers, health professionals and other skilled workers into the United States to relieve local labour-market shortages.

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Compared with El Salvador, not only is Ecuador's economy less closely linked to that of the United States but its inflation rate is higher, its labour market more rigid, and its economy still unreformed.

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