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JOURNAL OF APPLIED BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS

Economic and Financial Reform in Costa Rica:

Challenges and Opportunities to 2025

Author(s): Ira Sohn

Citation: Ira Sohn, (2013) "Economic and Financial Reform in Costa Rica: Challenges and Opportunities to 2025," Journal of Applied Business and Economics, Vol. 15, Iss. 1, pp. 77-93

Article Type: Research paper

Publisher: North American Business Press

Abstract:

This paper begins with a brief review of Costa Rica’s history, vital statistics, and recent economic and

political highlights. Costa Rica, a small tropical country located in a politically and economically

challenged region, is without the benefit of world-class domestic resource and manufacturing sectors.

Using a well-known framework to assess the performance of a national economy within the context of the

wider global economy, I identify the strengths and weaknesses of the Costa Rican economy, that, in turn,

need to be exploited or addressed to the end of enhancing the performance of the economy and future

living standards.