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Investment in Special Services
Costa Rica increasingly attracts
foreign investment in the
special services sector, which
is based on knowledge and
professional skills.
The high
quality training, a good level
of English, and being
geographically close to the
United States are some of the
key factors to attract such
investment, according to Alberto Trejos, chairman of the Costa
Rican Coalition of Development
Initiatives (CINDE in Spanish).
In 1998, there just two call
centers in Costa Rica, which
represented 200 direct jobs.
Now, eight years later, there
are 40 firms, with 10,000 people
on their payrolls, in the
service sector.
Trejos pointed
out that Costa Rica has become a
place where companies move their
complex operations in order to
save on costs, therefore the
increasing investment in the
sector.
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