However, despite these relatively low poverty rates and a solid economic growth, Costa Rica’s economic success is concentrated in a small elite group and thus, large socioeconomic inequalities persist in the countiy . According to the Encuesta Nacional de Hogares 2015, from INEC, the Household Gini Coefficient1 0.510 whilst the Person-based Gini Coefficient was 0.516. These are considerably higher than the OECD average of 32.2 (although lower than the Gini Coefficient in Chile that was 50.5 in 2013) (OECD, 2016).