Editorial: Growing up Is Not Enough if the State Continues to Spend Badly

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has just given Costa Rica an excellent bulletin of notes for a developing economy: 4.6 per cent growth in 2025, international reserves at record levels, sovereign differential in historical minima, sustainable debt, solid financial system. The Fund renewed the Flexible Credit Line for another two years and described the country’s fundamentals as “very solid.” Few countries in the region exhibit such a record…