Part of the UNDP Initiative Latin America and the Caribbean: A biodiversity super power. Report aims to inform policy makers and businesses in LAC about the economic risks and opportunities of…

Research Fellow Alvaro Umaña is the Head and Political Coordinator of the Costa Rican Negotiating Team at Copenhagen. Dr. Alvaro Umaña, Research Fellow at EfD Central America, was designated as Head…

En Costa Rica los parques nacionales generan bienestar a las comunidades vecinas El número y la superficie total de las áreas protegidas en el mundo han tenido un crecimiento continuo en las décadas…

Las organizaciones comunales de abastecimiento de agua y saneamiento en Costa Rica Las organizaciones comunales de abastecimiento de agua y saneamiento (ASADAS) surten de agua a gran parte de la…

La efectividad de una política de descentralización depende de muchos factores y no puede ser concebida como una panacea para solventar los problemas de provisión de agua potable en todos los…

The general objective of the thesis is to analyze the political economy of the regulation of Costa Rica’s transport sector and identify the main opportunities and challenges in designing a more…

Perhaps current prices of fossil fuels are the reflection of the hurricane's eye passing through the global markets. Before exorbitant oil prices again steal all the attention, it is important to…

Policy makers in developing countries need to balance an array of distributional, political, fiscal and environmental goals in deciding whether to raise fuel taxes. Our analysis demonstrates that…

For Costa Rica’s parks and reserves, a threatened location is the key to effectively avoiding deforestation Billions of dollars are spent every year on over 100,000 protected areas around the world…

EfD-CA's research fellows are estimating a cost base structure for the allocation of service concessions and non-essential activities within the protected wilderness areas. The park authorities and…