Economists from the National University said the unemployment rate could be 18.6 percent when counting the number of people who have stopped looking for work.
With dengue cases up over 250 percent from 2012, the Health Ministry may start exploring ways to economically motivate Ticos to do more to clean up mosquito breeding grounds.
Kidney disease has become a leading cause of death for Central American farmworkers. But the only thing scientists know for sure is that the situation is getting worse.
