Caribbean & Central America - November 2013 (ISSN 1741-4458)

Still discussing fiscal reform: On 17 October Costa Rica’s finance minister, Édgar Ayales, presented a government paper entitled Towards Fiscal Consolidation: Agenda for a National Dialogue which calls for a national and cross-party dialogue to reach a consensus on the long-term macroeconomic policies necessary to bring the economy back under control. Its objectives cover boosting economic growth and domestic production and cutting the deficit through increasing tax revenue.

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