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How Will the Government Fund More Avancemos Scholarships with ¢52 Billion Missing for 2027?

From La Nación · () Spanish

Translated from Spanish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Costa Rica’s 2027-2030 development plan proposes increasing Avancemos scholarship coverage from 325,000 students in 2025 to 370,000 by 2030.
  • The plan would add about 45,000 students, while partly restoring coverage that reached roughly 357,000 students in 2022.
  • The article highlights a ¢52 billion gap between the program’s projected needs and identifiable resources in the initial 2027 budget.

Costa Rica’s plan to expand its Avancemos scholarship program faces a ¢52 billion funding shortfall for 2027, according to the article.

The National Development and Public Investment Plan for 2027-2030 proposes raising coverage from 325,000 students in 2025 to 370,000 in 2030. That would bring about 45,000 additional students into the program, although part of the effort would restore coverage lost since 2022.

Avancemos served roughly 357,000 students in 2022. The new plan expects to reach that level again in 2029 before moving toward the 2030 target.

The article points to a discrepancy between the goal, its estimated cost and the resources identified in the government’s initial 2027 budget. It also argues that counting beneficiaries alone does not show the program’s actual coverage. The amount each student receives and the number of months covered also affect the reach of the scholarships.

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Originally published by La Nación in Spanish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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