UN DESA | DPAD | Development Policy Analysis Division
Capacity Development and Advisory Services
Costa Rica
Costa Rica’s involvement in DPAD's capacity development activities started in 2006 with the participation in the project “Implications of Macroeconomic Policy, External Shocks and Social Protection Systems for Poverty, Inequality, and Social Vulnerability in Latin America and the Caribbean”. Capacity development activities aim at assessing the impact of existing economic and social policies, and at formulating and evaluating strategies that will help the country achieve the development goals.
The main national counterpart of DPAD in Costa Rica is the Ministry of National Planning and Economical Politics (MIDEPLAN). DPAD collaborates closely with the United Nations Development Program country office in Costa Rica and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) for administrative support.
- Projects
- Activities
- Outputs
- Partners
- Strengthening Macroeconomic and Social Policy Coherence through Integrated Macro-Micro Modelling (2011-2013)
- Implications of Macroeconomic Policy, External Shocks and Social Protection Systems for Poverty, Inequality, and Social Vulnerability in Latin America and the Caribbean (2006-2010)
- 15 January 2013—Event (San José, Costa Rica)
- 10–14 December 2012—Training workshop (San José, Costa Rica)
- 28 November 2012—Working meetings (San José, Costa Rica)
- 28 May–1 June 2012—Inception workshop (San José, Costa Rica)
- 5–9 December 2011—First training workshop (San José, Costa Rica)
- 20–24 June 2011—Inception workshop and meetings
(San José, Costa Rica)
- Country Study: "Políticas Públicas, Crecimiento Y Objetivos De Desarrollo Del Milenio En Costa Rica: Costeo Y Notas Con Base En Análisis De Escenarios" (2013)
- Country study: 'Determinantes socioeconómicos de la educación, la mortalidad y el acceso al agua potable y el saneamiento: un análisis econométrico' (2012)
- Book “Economic vulnerability to external shocks, social protection and poverty in Latin America” (2011)
- Country study “Costa Rica: Implicaciones de la política macroeconómica, los choques externos y los sistemas de protección social en la pobreza, la desigualdad y la vulnerabilidad” (2010)