Richard Burkart Richard Burkart grew up in Canada. He is an international economist and consultant to the pharmaceutical sector. He and his wife Lise have lived in Canada, the USA, Thailand, Panama, Mexico, Singapore, France, and the UK. In 2005 they purchased a larger house in Coronado Panama on one half acre of landscaped property opposite a spectacular, palm-fringed Pacific Ocean beach (Playa Serena).By late 2006, they expect to move permanently to their new home in Coronado and live an "above-average American lifestyle" on approximately 30% of their present New Jersey budget."

Panama Top Retirement Destination Panama is your best value for offshore retirement. Enhance your standard of living in a low cost, tropical country on a mere 25% of current budget.  This book contains a simple message for global “baby boomers” preparing for the most interesting third of their lives. Your choices have never been better! Your opportunity to protect and enhance your lifestyle, over the long-term, are brighter today than you may have imagined although not through the use of conventional “investment and saving” strategies. This book compares retirement “value for dollar” on a global basis and a special focus on Panama. This edition of the former "Retirement Planning for Offshore Living" has been taylored for Offshore World and Expats Ebooks.