San José, March 30 th , 2023 - Malka Quirós Ruiz is a Costa Rican head of household who lives in Bagaces, a canton in Costa Rica's North Pacific region historically affected by high arsenic residues in the water. Her life, like that of 12,000 other inhabitants of the area, changed when the project to expand and improve the aqueduct that now provides them with clean water service came into ...
San Jose, June 30th, 2022.- Flor Franco, in addition to being the owner of the Leño y Carbón restaurant, is one of the 817 micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) that have benefited in Costa Rica through the Central American Bank for Economic Integration's (CABEI) Financial Sector Support Facility for MSME Financing. Their business is made up of 24 workers who kept their jobs during the ...
San José, 6 de octubre de 2022.- The Cabécars are a native ethnic group in Costa Rica who live mostly in mountainous areas far from commerce, which makes it difficult for them to access food and basic health care products, as they have to walk between 4 and 7 hours to be able to shop. Aware of these difficulties, the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) approved a US$2,000 grant ...
San José, July 20, 2021 - A total of 167 small Costa Rican companies, 33 micro and one medium-sized company have accessed financing from the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) channeled through its commercial allies such as financial institutions. The resources requested by this productive sector since 2020 to date, which come from the Financial Sector Support Facility for the ...
San José, November 24, 2021 - A total of 200 trees of eight different species donated by the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) will reforest the entrance to Fortuna de San Carlos, in northern Costa Rica. The donation, equivalent to US$3,000, is part of the Footprint of the Future initiative, which aims to plant 200,000 endemic, flowering, fruit and timber trees in the area ...
San José, September 1, 2020.- With financing of US$5 million granted by the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) to the Republic of Costa Rica, the order to start the Corredores Water Line Integrated System Improvement Project, in the southeast of the country, was given. The important project that will guarantee drinking water to nearly 27,000 people in the Corredores de ...
San José, 10 de noviembre 2022.- Nearly 300 student entrepreneurs from more than 30 countries around the world competed for their ideas, their applicability and how they contribute to the global agribusiness problem at the EARTH University Agribusiness Sustainability Summit, which is being held at the EARTH University campus in Costa Rica with the support of the tripartite Green MSMEs Initiative ...
San José, July 4th, 2023 - Solving the water shortage problem in a highly populated province such as Pérez Zeledón in southern Costa Rica, a plant capable of treating up to 13 million liters of water for the benefit of 48,000 inhabitants was recently installed with the support of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI). The works also include a tank that stores 1.4 million ...
San José, May 9th, 2022.- Fulfilling its role of accompanying the authorities of its member countries, this Sunday the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) was part of the presidential handover ceremony in Costa Rica, reinforcing its commitment to support initiatives that improve the country's competitiveness and the quality of life of its inhabitants. The activity, in which the ...
San Jose, March 23rd, 2022.- Within the framework of the IV Summit of the Alliance for Development in Democracy formed by Costa Rica, Panama and the Dominican Republic, held on Monday to define lines of action on issues related to finance, foreign trade and multilateral support, the directors of the three countries before the Central American Bank for Economic Integration (CABEI) took the ...