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The economy of Costa Rica has been very stable for some years now, with continuing growth in the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) and moderate inflation, though with a high unemployment rate: 11.49% in 2019. [16] Costa Rica's economy emerged from recession in 1997 and has shown strong aggregate growth since then.
ICE was founded on 8 April 1949 by Decree-Law No. 449, after the Costa Rican Civil War of 1948, in order to solve the problems of power shortages that occurred in Costa Rica in the 1940s. Since 1963, ICE provides telecommunications services throughout the country. The attempts to reform ICE throughout a set of laws in the years 1999 and 2000 ...
Tourism in Costa Rica has been one of the fastest growing economic sectors of the country [2] and by 1995 became the largest foreign exchange earner. [3] [4] Since 1999, tourism has earned more foreign exchange than bananas, pineapples and coffee exports combined. [5] The tourism boom began in 1987, [3] with the number of visitors up from ...
Renewable energy in Costa Rica supplied about 98.1% of the electrical energy output for the entire nation in 2016. [1] Fossil fuel energy consumption (% of total energy) in Costa Rica was 49.48 as of 2014, [2] with demand for oil increasing in recent years. [3] In 2014, 99% of its electrical energy was derived from renewable energy sources ...
Avianca S.A. ( acronym in Spanish for Aerovias del Continente Americano S.A., "Airways of the American Continent", and stylized as avianca since October 2023), is the largest airline in Colombia. It has been the flag carrier of Colombia [5] [6] since December 5, 1919, when it was initially registered under the name SCADTA.
Outsourcing. Outsourcing is a business practice in which companies use external providers to carry out business processes that would otherwise be handled internally, [1] [2] or in-house. [3] Outsourcing sometimes involves transferring employees and assets from one firm to another.
Service companies of Costa Rica (1 C) T. Tourism in Costa Rica (4 C, 7 P) Transport in Costa Rica (8 C, 6 P) This page was last edited on 25 January 2020, at ...
Alaska Airlines is a member of Oneworld, the third-largest airline alliance in the world. [6] As of 2020, the airline employs over 16,000 people and has been ranked by J. D. Power and Associates as having the highest customer satisfaction of the traditional airlines for twelve consecutive years.
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Beginning on the night (UTC-6:00) of April 17, 2022, a ransomware attack began against nearly 30 institutions of the government of Costa Rica, including its Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Science, Innovation, Technology and Telecommunications (MICITT), the National Meteorological Institute, state internet service provider RACSA, the Costa Rican Social Security Fund (Caja Costarricense de ...