Economy in 2021: How to Accelerate Recovery? Strengthening the confidence of economic agents through a solution to the problem of public finances and moving forward with the process of vaccinating the population are key factors for the Costa Rican economy to recover quickly in the new year. Monday, January 4, 2021 The spread of covid-19 and the restrictions imposed at the local and global levels severely affected most of Costa Rica's productive sectors, to the extent that the unemployment rate climbed to historical levels, several businesses were closed and economic activity fell sharply. Despite that from the second half of 2020 authorities began to remove restrictions on economic activities, the economic recovery process has been full of ups and downs, a situation that produces uncertainty.