It’s déjà vu all over again for Costa Rica’s investment rating. Fitch Ratings announced that the company was holding steady on its junk bond rating for Costa Rica, according…
In context of International Women's Day, Costa Rican leaders on Monday signed a decree to create a commission to address the country's gender unemployment gap. The objective…
Unemployment in Costa Rica is at 19.1%, but the job loss provoked by the pandemic has predominantly impacted women. According to the National Institute of Statistics and…
Unemployment in Costa Rica fell to 19.1% in the moving quarter from November to January. This maintained a downward trend that has followed the record unemployment figures…
Unemployment in Costa Rica reached 20% of the workforce in the last quarter of 2020, a figure lower than in previous months but still elevated, the official…
Costa Rica, which has already started its vaccination campaign against Covid-19, will have a gradual economic recovery from 2021, conditional on Congress approving a fiscal adjustment negotiated…
The Covid-19 pandemic caused "massive damage" to employment, and recovery in 2021 will be "slow, uneven and uncertain" if policy makers do not take appropriate action, the…
Costa Rica closed 2020 with a fiscal deficit of 8.3% of GDP, the highest in recent decades although lower than the official projection, the government announced Monday.…
Unemployment in Costa Rica was 21.3% in the moving quarter from September to November, a historically high level as a result of the pandemic, although the figure…
Unemployment in Costa Rica was 21.9% in the August-October quarter, slightly lower than the previous period but still significantly higher than the same time last year, the National Institute…
