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For the fourth year in a row, the thread between Costa Rica's richest and its poorest has stretched. Each year for the past eight, the country has tracked its progress toward equality, or lack of it, with a State of the Nation Report (see NotiCen, 2001-11-30). The State of the Nation project is supported and financed by the state universities, Defensoria de los Habitantes, Banco Popular, Infocoop, Convenio Costa Rica-Holanda, Fundecooperacion, World Health Organization (WHO), and the International Labor Organization (ILO). This year's edition finds that the best-off 10% of the population earned 23 times the income of the worst-off 10%. In 1997 the multiplier was 15.5%.
Costa Rica still stands as the country in Central America with the smallest income disparity, but Isabel Roman, research coordinator for the State of the Nation project, is more concerned with the potential undesirable political consequences of a growing breech. "We have the other countries of Latin America as a mirror," she says.
The research identifies three broad areas--inadequate coordination among economic sectors, social investment that does not improve income levels of the...
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