Costa Rica

Georg Sørensen
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Georg Sørensen: Aarhus University

Chapter 5 in Democracy, Dictatorship and Development, 1990, pp 145-163 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Columbus came to Costa Rica in 1502, looking for a sea route to Asia and for local riches, meaning gold and silver. The optimism ringing from the name which the Spaniards gave the country — Rich Coast — quickly proved entirely unfounded, and settlement proceeded very slowly. Around the time of independence in 1821 the total population was only 65 000, concentrated on the inter-mountain plateau called meseta central, which comprises only six per cent of the total land area of 50 900 sq km. At that time, the original Indian population had been reduced to a very small number, through either extermination or assimilation (Hall 1985:42n.; Seligson 1980:4).

Keywords: Intermediate Good; Coffee Production; Foreign Debt; Agrarian Reform; Autonomous Institution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1990
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11315-6_5

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