by Nick Halverson | Oct 6, 2010 | Costa Rica Business, Costa Rica economy
Source: www.TicoTimes.net Costa Rica’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) reports that prices fell an average of 0.08 percent during the month of September, the first month this year that consumer prices have decreased. Despite the slight deflation, through the first nine...
by Nick Halverson | Oct 6, 2010 | Costa Rica Business
Source: www.ticotimes.net According to a study conducted by the Foreign Trade Promotion Office (Procomer), approximately 355,000 people are employed in Costa Rica’s export sector. The study found that those involved in producing products for export hold 76 percent of...
by Nick Halverson | Oct 5, 2010 | Costa Rica Business, Laura Chinchilla
Source: www.ticotimes.net By Adam Williams Sterigenics International, a U.S.-based medical devices manufacturing company, announced Friday that it will construct a plant in Costa Rica. The plant, which will be built in a yet-to-be-determined free-trade zone, is...
by Nick Halverson | Oct 1, 2010 | Costa Rica education, Environment
Recycling Expo in Costa Rica / Daily News / News / Costa Rica Newspaper, The Tico Times.
by Nick Halverson | Oct 1, 2010 | Costa Rica Business, Government, Laura Chinchilla
Source: www.Ticotimes.net Promoters of the first free-trade zone in the Caribbean province of Limón will break ground this month. The free-trade zone, to be located in the community of Búfalo, will be large enough to host the manufacturing operations of 12 companies....
