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  • 7-November-2023

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    Health at a Glance 2023: Key findings for Costa Rica

    Health at a Glance provides the latest comparable data and trends on population health and health system performance. This Country Note shows how Costa Rica compares to other OECD countries across indicators in the report.

  • 6-October-2023

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    OECD Environmental Performance Reviews: Costa Rica 2023

    A megadiverse county, Costa Rica is known globally for its success in reversing deforestation and pursuing a growth model based on the sustainable use of its environmental resources. However, energy use and related greenhouse gas emissions increased in the last decade. Private cars are a major and growing source of emissions affecting climate and air quality. Waste disposal still relies on landfills, and much wastewater is untreated. Costa Rica’s extensive protected area network and pioneering programme of payments for ecosystem services have helped reduce biodiversity loss and extend forests’ carbon sequestration capacity. However, more should be done to tackle pressures on biodiversity from development of infrastructure and settlements, tourism, farming and fishing. The sheer scale of investment needed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals calls for improving the efficiency of public spending, mobilising private finance, strictly enforcing regulations and providing adequate incentives. This is the first OECD Environmental Performance Review of Costa Rica. It evaluates the country’s progress towards sustainable development, with a special chapter focusing on biodiversity, and provides 52 recommendations.
  • 4-August-2023

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    Development Co-operation Profiles: Costa Rica

    The OECD’s Development Co-operation Profiles compile and analyse verified statistics and trends on how development assistance is allocated geographically, to sectors, multilateral and civil society organisations, cross-cutting priorities such as gender equality and women’s economic empowerment and the environment and climate, and to mobilise private finance.

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  • 25-April-2023

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    Taxing Wages: Key findings for Costa Rica

    The tax wedge for the average single worker in Costa Rica remained unchanged at 29.2% in 2021 and 2022. The OECD average tax wedge in 2022 was 34.6% (2021, 34.6%).

  • 6-February-2023

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    Costa Rica: el fortalecimiento de las finanzas públicas, la productividad y la educación, claves para seguir progresando, según la OCDE

    La economía de Costa Rica ha conseguido unos avances significativos en los últimos años y está obteniendo unos buenos resultados a pesar del complicado contexto internacional.

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  • 6-February-2023

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    Costa Rica: strengthening public finances, productivity and education is key to continued progress, says OECD

    Costa Rica’s economy has made remarkable progress in recent years and is performing well in the face of global challenges. To safeguard its achievements and continue to improve living standards, Costa Rica will need further reforms to strengthen public finances, boost productivity, and improve education outcomes, according to a new OECD report.

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  • 30-November-2022

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    Revenue Statistics: Key findings for Costa Rica

    The OECD’s annual Revenue Statistics report found that the tax-to-GDP ratio in Costa Rica increased by 1.6 percentage points from 22.7% in 2020 to 24.2% in 2021. Between 2020 and 2021, the OECD average increased from 33.6% to 34.1%.

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  • 26-August-2022

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    Costa Rica: Ambassador, Permanent Representative to the OECD

    Biographical note of Costa Rica's Permanent representative to the OECD.

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  • 11-March-2022

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    Costa Rica - OECD Anti-Bribery Convention

    This page contains all information relating to implementation of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention in Costa Rica.

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  • 9-November-2021

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    Health at a Glance 2021 - How do Latin American countries compare

    Health at a Glance 2021 - How do Latin American countries compare

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