by Nick Halverson | Jul 8, 2014 | Costa Rica, Costa Rica Business, Costa Rica economy, Las Villas de San Buenas, Technology
Foreign Investment in Costa Rica Costa Rica has long been a common location for large multi-national corporations to find highly-educated, reliable employees. Recently, Cargill and IBM each opened up new facilities in the San Jose metro area increasing the foreign...
by Nick Halverson | Jun 22, 2014 | Costa Rica economy, Government, Las Villas de San Buenas, News, Rosibel Ramos Madrigal
Last week my project manager, Hanz Cruz, and I spent an afternoon in San Jose where we visited the Legislative Assembly (Asamblea Legislativa), Costa Rica’s Congressional body. Costa Rica has an unicameral legislative structure (a single chamber. By way of...
by Nick Halverson | Mar 28, 2014 | Costa Rica economy, Costa Rica tourism
We often times get asked many of the same questions about Costa Rica. The following is general Costa Rica information that you may be interested in knowing. Capital: San Jose Currency: Colon Time zone: GMT-6; EST -1. Costa Rica does not participate in Daylight...
by Nick Halverson | Mar 30, 2012 | Aerospace, Costa Rica Business, Costa Rica development, Costa Rica economy, Costa Rica real estate
Costa Rica, Real Estate, News, Travel: 2012 New International Airport in Southern Osa Costa Rica. 2012 New International Airport in Southern Osa Costa Rica Recently there has been a lot of talk about the new international airport in the southern zone of Costa...
by Nick Halverson | Oct 29, 2010 | Costa Rica Business, Costa Rica economy, Costa Rica tourism
According to the Costa Rica Tourism Board (ICT), revenues from tourism accounted for 6.8 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) in 2009 and over 7 percent in 2007 and 2008. In the last three years, earnings from tourism have averaged around $2 billion....
by Nick Halverson | Oct 23, 2010 | Costa Rica Business, Costa Rica economy, Costa Rica real estate, Laura Chinchilla, Osa Peninsula
Original: www.amcostarica.com By the A.M. Costa Rica staff The project to build an international airport in the southern zone got a boost over the weekend when President Laura Chinchilla declared the concept to be in the public interest. That technical designation put...
