In June 2022, Swedish fintech Klarna laid off 700 employees, representing 10% of its workforce, in a mass video. After a reorganization, today Klarna is one of the largest banks in Europe, offering payment solutions for 150 million consumers in more than 500 000...
By Emma Tristan & German Lleras José Rafael has always lived in Alajuelita. In his happiest memory he is on the lap of his grandfather, who drives one of the buses that were brought in the 60’s. His grandfather had decided to go into debt to buy a bus and...
During the month of May, Costa Rica will submit its first taxonomy of sustainable finance to public consultation. Why did this taxonomy arise? What advantages will it bring to the Costa Rican financial sector? Will it be mandatory in Costa Rica? And first of all, what...
David Bowie, music and fashion icon, said it in the early 1980s in his piece Fashion: fashion plays with us. It makes us turn left, then right. It asks us to listen to it and then not anymore. It asks us to dance, but only one piece. In the 1950s, fashion went from...
In March 2022, citizens of the cantons of Moravia and Goicoechea reported that the water in their homes smelled like fuel. However, Roberto Zoch, mayor of Moravia, indicated that the Costa Rican Institute of Aqueducts and Sewers (AyA) found no presence of hydrocarbons...
Pedro needs to work. He has been out of work for several months and his family depends on him. María offers him an opportunity to receive income and Pedro must work for clients that she will send him. He will self-manage his schedule and will not have an employment...
