While economic theorists are often fond of assuming that, if profitable opportunities exist,
entrepreneurs will find them, the Costa Rican experience is that if a country is small
enough it will take a while for foreign companies to find it and if it is poor enough the same
will happen with the local entrepreneur. In the absence of institutions that solve the
immediate problems, channel information in both directions and reduce the riskiness and
entry costs, it is likely that multinationals would pass up places like Costa Rica and go to
“safer” (by which we mean larger, or better known, or easier to argue from the distance of
corporate headquarters) locations and small local companies would more often stick to the
comfortable domestic market.
While economic theorists are often fond of assuming that, if profitable opportunities exist, entrepreneurs will find them, the Costa Rican experience is that if a country is small enough it will take a while for foreign companies to find it and if it is poor enough the same will happen with the local entrepreneur. In the absence of institutions that solve the immediate problems, channel information in both directions and reduce the riskiness and entry costs, it is likely that multinationals would pass up places like Costa Rica and go to “safer” (by which we mean larger, or better known, or easier to argue from the distance of corporate headquarters) locations and small local companies would more often stick to the comfortable domestic market.
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