The Forests of Costa Rica: A General Report on the Forest Resources of Costa RicaForest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1943 - 132 páginas |
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Página 4 - Rica is bounded on the north by Nicaragua, on the east by the Caribbean Sea. on the southeast by Panama and on the west by the Pacific Ocean.
Página 9 - ... have a managed economy, which means fixed prices. Fixed prices may be registered in the normal market places, but they do not represent the actual prices at which goods are being exchanged for money. A case in point is corn. The OPA has established a paper ceiling price for the various grades of corn, but it is safe to say that at least 90 percent of the corn that moves away from the county in which it is grown is moving at the ceiling price plus gratuities in some form. The fixed price does...
Página 5 - The three mountain •anges, proceeding from northwest to southeast, ire the Cordillera de Guanacaste, the Cordillera Central, and the Cordillera de Talamanca.
Página 45 - Other factors to bo taken into account are the political and financial stability of the governments and their ability to exert effectual control over the exploitation of the public forests as well as those in private ownership. With few exceptions , such control is possible only where it has the backing of public opinion founded upon an appreciation of the need for conservative handling of the natural resources.