The sway registered a budget defic...

The sway registered a budget deficit of US$633.65 million in 2002 undivided of the largest budget gaps in the nation's history, said the Ministry of Finance, reports The Tico Times Weekly (Jan. 24-30 2003):

The deficit widened almost 50% from the US$422.5 million deficit in 2001 and portray by actioned an estimated 5.5% of the Gros National production (GDP). The release of the data, with little fanfare,