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These are the Financial Support Measures Created by CCSS for Overcoming the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis
The financial measures adopted by the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS) have been re-adjusted for allowing an expansion in its protection and support, during the following months of the year, for employers, independent workers, and insured volunteers, this...
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A New Law against Credit Usury Shakes the Financial Markets in Costa Rica
A law recently passed by the Costa Rican Legislative Assembly that seeks to combat usury rates on credit and microcredit is stirring the financial market in this country, and even a bank announced layoffs and the closure of thousands...
Nestlé Chooses Costa Rica to Produce the only NESCAFÉ Ground Coffee in the Region
Nestlé Costa Rica, a company with more than 60 years operating in the country, unveiled its new NESCAFÉ Ground Coffee product
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Google offers $ 500.000 to support research on COVID-19 in Latin America
In times like these, where technology and health come hand in hand to offer tools and solutions for the benefit of humanity, research projects are increasingly relevant.With this in mind, "Google" announced the opening of registrations for the eighth...
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More Than 139,000 Citizens Are Still Waiting to Receive the “Bono Proteger”
To date 139,100 Costa Ricans have been waiting for the “Bono Proteger” for three months (from April), while others who registered later (in May and June) have already obtained their deposit. The reason is that deposits are prioritized according...
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Latin America Registers the Highest Level of Unemployment in its History
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Domestic Workers, Fragile Victims of the Pandemic in Latin America
In the Americas, there are up to 18 million people engaged in domestic work, of which 93% are women, according to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC).With a long history of exclusion and job insecurity,...
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Costa Rica Resumes Economic Reopening and Gets Ready to Open Airports on August 1st
The Government of Costa Rica informed this Friday the entry of phase 3 for reopening of economic activities and announced that international airports will open on August 1st with flights from countries that have the SARS-CoV-2 Virus under control."On...
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Why Global Forex Brands Avoid the USA?
In today's modern world, a lot of opportunities are available for us to make money online. When you make a Google search on the best ways to make money from home, you'll get endless results. Thanks to the internet,...
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“Sex Workers” Have also been Hard Hit by the Coronavirus Crisis
Llobeth is 56 years old and suffers from high blood pressure. For that, she has no choice but to take natural remedies, since she has no money to buy pills, which is most of the time. She does not...
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Study Indicates that Brain Imaging Holds Clues to Rate of Memory Loss
A brain MRI (an artificially colored image) can detail the risk of memory loss and other cognitive difficulties, according...