Costa Rica has reached a new milestone in foreign direct investment (FDI), recording more than $4.3 billion in inflows in 2024—a 14% increase from the previous year and the highest in the country’s ...

Costa Rica's foreign investment figures for 2024 include 21 new companies, 52 reinvestment projects, and 5,500 new net jobs. Changing technologies, international politics, improved incentives ...

SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica, April 5, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- In 2024, Costa Rica recorded a historic total of $4,321 million in foreign direct investment (FDI) flows, representing a 14% increase compared ...

Despite a global decline in foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2024, Costa Rica successfully attracted 21 new companies, generating over 5,500 jobs as existing businesses expanded their operations and ...

The international mission combines export promotion and foreign direct investment to strengthen the development of Costa Rica's education sector. This year's edition, taking place from May 27 to ...

Why is Costa Rica an attractive destination for foreign investment? Costa Rica is a small nation with a powerful voice. With an impressive track record of democracy, human rights, and environmental ...

At the institutional level, we are also promoting more agile and efficient mechanisms for the management of permits and procedures, reducing response times and facilitating foreign investment.” Laura ...

Costa Rica will increase the tax on foreign investors in a bid to stem potentially destabilizing capital inflows, levying a rate of up to 38 percent if investors seek to transfer profits from ...

Costa Rica asked Congress on Monday to approve an extra tax of up to 30 percentage points for foreign investors who seek to transfer profits from local investments outside the country.