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Is Costa Rica different? Without an army since 1949, the small Central American country of six million people has been a democratic bastion in a region of conflict. What it has not spent on defense has been invested in health and education. Yet the quality of these public services, Costa Ricans say, is eroding. Homicide rates are rising. So is inequality. Costa Rica is at a crossroads.
¿Es Costa Rica diferente? Sin ejército desde 1949, este pequeño país centroamericano de seis millones de habitantes ha sido un bastión democrático en una región conflictiva. Lo que no ha gastado en defensa lo ha invertido en sanidad y educación. Sin embargo, según los costarricenses, la calidad de estos servicios públicos se está deteriorando. La tasa de homicidios aumenta. También la desigualdad. Costa Rica se encuentra en una encrucijada.
Speakers Laura Alfaro, Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, former Costa Rican Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy, 2010-2012. Carlos Alvarado Quesada, Professor of the Practice at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, former President of Costa Rica 2018-2022. Claudia Dobles Camargo, Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2023 Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Daniela Solis, undergraduate student at Harvard University from Costa Rica studying government.
Moderated by Rafael Monge, Harvard Kennedy School Master in Public Administration 2024, former government official from the Ministry of Environment and Energy of Costa Rica.
This event will be in English with Spanish translation. Este evento será en inglés, con interpretación a español disponible por Zoom.