This is what Costa Rica can teach the world about democracy

Costa Rica has been an unlikely island of progressive social and environmental policy following its civil war in 1948. Image: REUTERS/Juan Carlos Ulate
Joseph E. Stiglitz
Professor, Columbia University

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