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Caribbean & Central America - October 2019
Alvarado looks to private sector to improve Costa Rica’s infrastructure competitiveness
Costa Rica’s government is making a big push to improve its infrastructure in order to improve its global competitiveness for trade and investment. The World Economic Forum’s global competitiveness report from 2017-2018 ranked the Central American country 62nd out of 137 countries for infrastructure competitiveness. A closer look at the figures that make up the indicator reveal that Costa Rica ranked 123rd out of 137 countries for road infrastructure and 98th for port infrastructure. With these figures in mind, President Carlos Alvarado has made infrastructure investment a central pillar for his government.
- Introduction
- Internal displacement in the Northern Triangle
- Guatemala’s child malnutrition epidemic hits hard
- AI will shake up Central America’s labour market
- Alvarado looks to private sector to improve Costa Rica’s infrastructure competitiveness
- Focus on building Caribbean hurricane resilience
- Strong Guyanese growth ahead of first oil, but political difficulties persist
- The search goes on in Suriname
- Venezuelan migration to the English-speaking Caribbean
- Russia courts Suriname
- Trinidad still at odds with the US
- Economic Highlights