REPRODUCED AT THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES DECLASSIFIED Authority State Leter Muhz by me, wara Date 24 181 12 portion of this wealtli through an efficient organization of the means of production and distribution. The complexion of this orientation is largely that of classic liberal economic thought, but modified by tinges of nationalism and socialis to fit the Costa Rican situation.
Rodrigo Fucio, in his Estudio Sobre Economía Costarricense, to which reference was made above, has presented a platform for the future development of Costa Rican economy. Since this platform has been adopted intact by the Centro, it is perhaps worth quotation. The program is divided into four phases, and is, in translation, as follows: Social base: Encourageldent of immigration under the rigorous control of the State, and organization of colonies by economic regions.
Formation of credit cooperatives for the production, purchase, sale, and distribution by small enterprisers, Organization of cong wiers cooperatives in cities and towns, Cooperative ederations, Regional agreements between producers and consumers cooperatives.
Economic buse: Progressive tax on uncultivated property.
Expropriation, witil payment of their value, of the lands which are considered essential for the policy of colonization.
Lical Establishment of bonded warehouses (with facilities to make cash loans to small farmers and to buy and sell agricultural products or their derivatives) designed to guide production, based on statistics of production and consumption, by fixing the prices of purchase and sale and the rate of interest on loans.
scientific or anization of the statistics of production and consumption.
Opening or perfecting of the ways of communication by economic regions.
Adjustment of the tariff of public or private enterprises of land, air, or coa twise transportation, according to the indications or the state bonded warehouses.
Technical base: Organization of a Technical and Investigaliive Section, of the Department of Agriculture, for the scientific study of the necessities and the possibilities on Costa Rica animal, vegetable, ara mineral wealth, Establishment