Shanell

Costa Ricas economy depend on tourism agriculture and electronics exports. Poverty has been reduced over the past 15 years and as trong social safety net has been put into place.same time distnibution of income remains unequel.Tourism continues to bring in foreign exchange.Costa Rica was agricultural society unil the middle of the 19th cenry when coffee became the largest and most profitableexport.Bananas soon followed thetwocrops continue to be the most important agricultural products of Costa Rica. Also meat andsugar.In the 1990s tourism really took off in Costa Rica as a major industry.In the mid 1990s the country revenues from tourism passed those of coffee and bananas combined.By 2000 well over one million tourists were visiting Costa Rica every year.Tourism continues to play an increasingly important role over agriculture.