There Is an Urgent Need to Grow the ‘Pastel’ in the Definitive Regime

It is well known that the Costa Rican economy is characterized by a great duality. That is, on the one hand, companies of the special regime (free zones) highly productive, whose production grew by 2024 at double-digit rates (13.8%) versus companies of definitive regime, mostly micro and small, with very low levels of productivity, whose production grew much less (3.6%) in the same year. The criticism of this situation is that the relative weigh…