Caribbean & Central America - July 2015 (ISSN 1741-4458)

Investment: Overall foreign direct investment (FDI) in Costa Rica shrank by 21% to US$2.1bn in 2014, though that figure overshot the government’s goal of US$1.9bn. The US supplied over half of the FDI, with the main winners in the categories of services and real estate, accounting for 35% and 36% of inflows respectively. The manufacturing sector, which has been in decline for years, only received 20% of FDI inflows in 2014.

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