Jorge Jamil Mahuad Witt is an Ecuadorian lawyer, academic and former politician. He was the forty-first president of Ecuador from 10 August 1998 to 21 January 2000.

The economy of Ecuador is the eighth largest in Latin America and the 69th largest in the world by total GDP. Ecuador's economy is based on the export of oil, bananas, shrimp, gold, other primary agricultural products and money transfers from Ecuadorian emigrants employed abroad. In 2017, remittances constituted 2.7% of Ecuador's GDP. The total trade amounted to 42% of the Ecuador's GDP in 2017.