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Free Trade Zone in Caribbean to Break Ground
Free-trade zones offer companies the opportunity to import and export goods without barriers such as quotas or tariffs. Countries use them to attract foreign investment, critical for developing countries like Costa Rica. In 2008, companies operating in free-trade zones in Costa Rica accounted for $4.98 billion in exports, more than 54 percent of the country’s total.
Costa Rica Internet Usage Facts and Figures
Source: Tico Times By Adam Williams Tico Times Staff | [email protected] A recent study conducted by Internet provider Radiográfica Costarricense S.A. (RACSA) and market research firm CID Gallup revealed that 53 percent of Costa Ricans (2.4 million people)...
Pablo Picasso Artwork on Display in Costa Rica
Source: www.TicoTimes.net Twenty-nine lithographs of works by iconic Spanish artist Pablo Picasso are now on display in a free exhibit at Avenida Escazú shopping mall, west of San José. Unable to resist the blank surfaces on the sheets of corrugated cardboard piled up...
Time Magazine Announces Chinchilla as Top 10 Female Leader
Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla was recognized as one of the “Top 10 Female Leaders” by Time magazine on Wednesday. She was ranked No. 10 on the list, which appears on Time’s website, www.time.com.
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Recently I spent ten days in Costa Rica working on various projects. It had been six months since I was there last. I thought you would be interested in what I saw.
Canada and Costa Rica Start Professional Exchange Program
Young Ticos will soon have the opportunity to work on Canada’s famous ski slopes, study in the best Canadian universities or travel through the northern nation’s national parks, thanks to an agreement signed by the two countries’ foreign ministers on Friday.
The agreement overrides immigration requirements for a one-year period so that Ticos and Canadians between 18 and 35 years of age can participate in an exchange program.
Costa Rica Insurance Market Opening Up
In July 2008, laws were changed to allow this, and in August 2008 the Insurance Superintendency (SUGESE) was formed to oversee the entire industry. Shortly thereafter, SUGESE enacted a series of regulations establishing the conditions whereby new actors in the market can become licensed, as well as the conditions for the operation of the entire insurance industry.
To obtain a license to operate, insurance companies (also brokerages and agencies) must go through a complex process
