Costa Rica stands as one of the most politically stable countries in Latin America. It has a development model matching strong equity policies in public services (e.g. free and compulsory basic education and a good public healthcare system) with an open economy that has made FDI the principal...

Peer reviews of competition law and policy are a valuable tool to reform and strengthen a country’s competition framework. This peer review of Costa Rica presents the evolution of its competition regime and assesses its competition law and policy.

This report provides an overview of measures taken by Latin American governments to improve integrity and prevent corruption in state-owned enterprises (SOEs), based on the results of an OECD survey submitted to the public bodies responsible for the ownership and co-ordination of national SOEs...

This paper estimates the impact of two productive development programs (PDPs) in Costa Rica: PROPYME and CR Provee. The first seeks to increase the capacity of small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) to innovate, and the second aims to increase backward linkages between Costa Rican SMEs and...

This paper addresses the relationships between innovation, research and development (R&D) and productivity in domestic ICT firms in Costa Rica. Factors considered were the types of innovation outputs produced by domestic ICT firms, the relative importance of innovation inputs, the impacts of...

This paper analyzes five Productive Development Policies (PDPs) implemented in Costa Rica, finding that they are not optimally addressing market failures. Moreover, government failures rather than market failures represent the main justification for PDPs. Even in the presence of market failures,...

The OECD review of Gender Equality in Costa Rica: Towards a Better Sharing of Paid and Unpaid Work is the fourth in a collection of reports focusing on Latin American and the Caribbean countries, and part of the series Gender Equality at Work. The report compares gender gaps in labour and...

Under BEPS Action 14, members of the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework on BEPS have committed to implement a minimum standard to strengthen the effectiveness and efficiency of the mutual agreement procedure (MAP). The MAP is included in Article 25 of the OECD Model Tax Convention and commits...