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Looking to buy or build? Well, this Friday, July 29 through Sunday, July 31 Expo Vivienda 2016 will exhibit offers and credit opportunities for housing projects with lots ready for both horizontal and vertical construction of houses and condominiums.Most...

Costa Rica has gone twelve consecutive months with an inflation whose interannual variation is negative.This has had repercussion on wage increases, which have remained practically at zero.Inflation is measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI), managed by the National Institute of...

Red taxis are still preferred by the majority of Costa Ricans over Uber, the ride-hailing service application. Uber's service and way of operating has gained great popularity since then. This information was revealed by a survey developed by the Interdisciplinary...

Regional growth will be led by Dominican Republic (6.0%), Panama (5.9%), Nicaragua and Bolivia (4.5%), and Costa Rica (4.3%) at the end of the year, according to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.ECLAC released its economic...

Two recent reports prove that GDP does not measure quality of life, using Costa Rica as an example for other countries. The two reports are the Happy Planet Index report and the Social Project Index of 2016. The reports use...

An efficient system of public transport has taken a very long time to be established. Why? It can be explained in part by the fact that a large part of the Government’s income is related to car ownership.Just last...

Costa Rica ranks second in Latin America, together with Brazil, with regards to workers' rights, according to a study done by the International Trade Union Confederation.Both countries are located in "Category 2," out of 5 total categories, that identifies...

Members of the Legislative Assembly approved last night in the first debate a bill that criminalizes the financing of terrorism. It was an amendment to the Law on Narcotics, Psychotropic Substances, Drugs of Unauthorized Use, Related Activities, Money-laundering, and Financing of...

Imagine waiting months for a much-needed organ transplant, only to lay in bed, writhing in pain, for 4 years after the transplant is completed. Imagine that the medicines the doctors give you don't work because you're allergic to them,...

After nearly a month since Nicaragua banned the export of milk from Costa Rica to their country, it seems that that fire now has smoke leaving it instead of flames after both governments reached an agreement.One of the main victims...