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Weekly Report - 28 June 2018 (WR-18-25)

COSTA RICA: Fiscal reforms fuel tensions

Trade unions in Costa Rica’s education and health sector staged a nationwide strike on 25 June to protest against the tax reform and proposed spending cuts tabled by the government led by President Carlos Alvarado. Exactly one week earlier the International Monetary Fund (IMF) released a report after a staff visit to Costa Rica applauding the government’s attempts to address the fiscal deficit, while calling for more (not less) to be done.

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