Costa Rica, summary of biostatistics. Maps and charts, natality and mortality statistics.

"Bibliography for Costa Rica" : p.5-10.

La caida del gobierno constitucional en Costa Rica; el golpe de estado del 27 de enero de 1917.

Includes extracts from letters, etc., of Lincoln G. Valentine relating to the petroleum interests in Costa Rica.

Costa Rica [a handbook]

"Import duties" (p. 93-125) in English and Spanish.

Costa Rica and her future.

Mode of access: Internet.

The Republic of Costa Rica,

Published in Spanish, 1887, under title: Apunamientos geográficos, estadisticos e históricos.

Costa Rica: the gem of American republics. The land, its resources and its people.

Prepared for the Cotton states and international exposition, Atlanta, 1895.

History of the discovery and conquest of Costa Rica /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Parnaso costarricense; selección esmerada de los mejores poetas de Costa Rica,

"Vocablos costarricenses": p. [187]-199.

El tratado de límites firmado entre Nicaragua y Costa Rica el 15 de abril de 1858, sometido al juicio arbitral de S.E. el Señor presidente de los Estados Unidos, 1887.

"Tratado de límites entre Nicaragua y Costa Rica celebrado el 15 de abril de 1858": p. 36-40.

Album de vistas de Costa Rica : con notas de información = Views of Costa Rica : with information /

Mode of access: Internet.

Desigualdad de ingresos en Costa Rica a la luz de las Encuestas Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos de los Hogares 2004 y 2013

En los primeros años del siglo XXI se ha observado una reducción de la desigualdad en los ingresos laborales en la mayoría de los países de la región latinoamericana. Sin embargo, Costa Rica es uno de los pocos en que no se ha revertido el proceso de incremento de la desigualdad de dichos ingresos, sino que este continúa creciendo. Al comparar los años 2004 y 2013, la dispersión por horas trabajadas y las diferencias salariales entre los trabajadores de los sectores público y privado se identifican como las principales causas de este aumento de la desigualdad.

Political corruption in the Caribbean Basin: A comparative analysis of Jamaica and Costa Rica

Political corruption in the Caribbean Basin retards state economic growth and development, undermines government legitimacy, and threatens state security. In spite of recent anti-corruption efforts of intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations (IGO/NGOs), Caribbean political corruption problems appear to be worsening in the post-Cold War period. This dissertation discovers why IGO/NGO efforts to arrest corruption are failing by investigating the domestic and international causes of political corruption in the Caribbean. The dissertation's theoretical framework centers on an interdisciplinary model of the causes of political corruption built within the rule-oriented constructivist approach to social science. The model first employs a rational choice analysis that broadly explains the varying levels of political corruption found across the region. The constructivist theory of social rules is then used to develop the structural mechanisms that further explain the region's levels of political corruption. The dissertation advances its theory of the causes of political corruption through qualitative disciplined-configurative case studies of political corruption in Jamaica and Costa Rica. The dissertation finds that IGO/NGO sponsored anti-corruption programs are failing because they employ only technical measures (issuing anti-corruption laws and regulations, providing transparency in accounting procedures, improving freedom of the press, establishing electoral reforms, etc.). While these IGO/NGO technical measures are necessary, they are not sufficient to arrest the Caribbean's political corruption problems. This dissertation concludes that to be successful, IGO/NGO anti-corruption programs must also include social measures, e.g., building civil societies and modernizing political cultures, for there to be any hope of lowering political corruption levels and improving Caribbean social conditions. The dissertation also highlights the key role of Caribbean governing elite in constructing the political and economic structures that cause their states' political corruption problems. ^