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Recent Foreign Investment in Costa Rica

July 7, 2014
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 investment in Costa Rica in 2014…

Mr Halverson Goes to San Jose to Visit the Costa Rica Congress

June 22, 2014
Last week my project manager, Hanz Cruz, and I spent an afternoon in San Jose where we Las Villas de San Buenas Project Manager Hanz Cruz, and CEO Nick Halverson meet with Deputada Rosibel Ramos Madrigal at the Costa Rica Congress.[/ca…

Costa Rica Information

March 28, 2014
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 Savings, so for approximately six mo…

2012 New International Airport in Southern Osa Costa Rica

March 29, 2012
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 Rica.  This has been going on…

Costa Rica Tourism Up 9 percent in 2010 vs 2009

October 29, 2010
According to the Costa Rica Tourism Board (ICT), revenues from tourism accounted for [caption id="attachment_392" align="alignright" width="89" caption="Costa Rica Tourism is up 9% in 2010"] 6.8 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product (GDP) in 2009 and over 7 percent in 2007 and …

Costa Rica’s Southern International Airport Update

October 23, 2010
Original: www.amcostarica.com By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
International flights will be coming to the Southern zone. Exact time is unkown.
The project to build an international airport in the southern zone go…

Costa Rica’s Exports Up 9 Percent

October 21, 2010
Costa Rica’s Exports Up 9 Percent / Daily News / News / Costa Rica Newspaper, The Tico Times. The Foreign Trade Promotion Office (Procomer) announced Wednesday that Costa Rica’s exports have increased 9 percent this year when compared to the first nine months of 2009. From Jan. through Sept. of t…

Qatar to Open Embassy in San José, Costa Rica Newspaper, The Tico Times

October 20, 2010
The oil-rich nation of Qatar, which boasts one of the highest GDPs per capita in the world, has announced plans to open an embassy in San José, Costa Rica.
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The embassy would be Qatar’s only diplomatic o…

Costa Rica Consumer Prices Dip

October 6, 2010
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 months of the year, average cons…