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Download full textCarnoy, Martin; Torres, Carlos – 1992
In the 1960s and 1970s, steady economic growth helped the Costa Rican government expand its education system rapidly. The 1979 oil shocks, the U.S. 1981-82 recession, and other factors ended this prosperity and exposed the fragility of Costa Rica's late 1970s debt-financed development. To restore economic growth, new economic policies were…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Conservatism, Developing Nations, Economic Change
