Earlier this month while traveling in Costa Rica, I attended an entrepreneur community meetup in the heart of the country’s most-prominent metropolitan area, Escazú. The meetup was organized by Chepetech and the discussion was led by Marcela Ledezma, Director at Klap, which focuses on the payments sector in Latin America (LatAm). The region represents a…
Costa Rica is well known for its agricultural products. Contrary to this belief, the country has much more to offer than its agricultural know how. Over the years, the Costa Rican economy has been morphing into a more diversified economy, offering medical devices and other technology. Agriculture accounted for about 16% of Costa Rica’s GDP…
Reading the IMF provides great high-level economic analysis. This note is meant to provide some of my experiences to better illustrate some of the IMF’s findings, and also to cover some topics the IMF may not. Last year, the IMF visit to Costa Rica concluded that the economy grew robustly in 2016. The government had…