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Weekly Report - 08 November 2018 (WR-18-44)

COSTA RICA: Alvarado faces poverty pressure

With the fiscal reform approved by the 57-member unicameral legislature [WR-18-40] still under consultation and awaiting promulgation, President Carlos Alvarado is facing renewed pressure to address inequality in the country. The national statistics institute (Inec) has released new figures which indicate that, after recent years of progress, poverty is now on the rise – affecting 21.1% of households in Costa Rica, up 1.1 percentage points compared with 2017.

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