In social protection, Costa Rica has a well-established social assistance network to protect vulnerable groups, but it does not adequately reach the very poor. Costa Rica is not likely to be able to rely on favorable economic conditions to reverse these trends. Macroeconomic projections do not show signs of the consistent growth that characterized the past ten years, and which allowed the government to continue increasing investment in the social...
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2003/11/01
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Brief
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2010/07/01
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Costa Rica - Social spending and the poor
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social spending
Citation
Ribe,Helena G.; Víquez, Roxana.
Costa Rica - Social spending and the poor (English). En breve ; no. 35 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/737111468233936606