Did the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic embolden ideas favourable to inclusive social policy in Latin America? This article addresses that...
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This publication presents an overview of the history of growth and structural transformations in the six Central American countries between the...
According to official data (based on the income poverty line), 20% of households in Costa Rica were poor in 1994, a figure that has apparently not...
This study uses wage premiums to explore knowledge spillovers through labour mobility from multinational companies (MNCs) to domestic firms in the...
Policymakers often look for ways to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) by multinational corporations (MNCs). This paper estimates the impact...
In 1980, just before the debt crisis and in contrast with the experience of the rest of Latin America, almost all Costa Ricans had formal jobs and...
Labour income inequality declined in most of the Latin American countries in the early years of the twenty-first century. Costa Rica, however, is...
Foreign direct investment (FDI) by Latin American companies has increased sharply since the beginning of the 2000s. While most investment flows...
This article presents the main results of the Programme for International Student
Assessment (PISA) for Costa Rica in 2009 and then goes on...
This report is part of a series of national case studies aimed at disseminating knowledge on the current status of social protection systems in...
Average real family incomes rose in Costa Rica in the late 1990 sand at the start of the new decade, but poverty rates did not fall. Hereit is...
A n analysis of the dynamics of poverty requires longitudinal data.
In Costa Rica, as in most Latin American countries, such data are
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Summary Following a period of economic growth, political stability and poverty reduction spanning two decades (1960-1979), Costa Rica...
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Costa Rica has become a new centre of international competitiveness in Latin America and the Caribbean. Its share in the imports of...
Abstract The globalization process based on more intense trade competition among countries coupled with a process of transnationalisation, in...