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Economic Reforms in Chile: From Dictatorship to Democracy » (Second Edition)

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Authors: Ricardo Ffrench-Davis
ISBN-13: 9780230577381, ISBN-10: 0230577385
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Date Published: October 2010
Edition: Second Edition

Author Biography: Ricardo Ffrench-Davis

RICARDO FFRENCH-DAVIS is Professor of Economics at the University of Chile. He has a PHD from the Univeristy of Chicago and he was Former Principal Adviser of ECLAC, Co-founder of the Chilean think tank CIEPLAN, and Chief Economist of the Central Bank. He has represented Presidents Lagos and Bachelet in the International Initiative to Fight Hunger and Poverty, and was awarded the National Prize for the Humanities and Social Sciences in 2005.

Book Synopsis

An analysis of the neoliberal reform in Chile during the last thirty years.

1	Economic Development in Chile since the 1950s	1
2	The Neoliberal Experiment: From Reforms to the Crisis of 1982	29
3	Import Liberalization: The Chilean Experience in 1973-82	53
4	Exchange Rate Policies: The Experience with the Crawling Peg	81
5	External Debt and Financial Liberalization in the 1970s	103
6	Debt Crisis and Recovery, 1982-89	129
7	Debt-Equity Swaps in Chile	147
8	Export Dynamism and Growth since the 1980s	164
9	Changes in Income Distribution and Poverty from the 1970s to the 1990s	183
10	Managing Capital Inflows in the 1990s	212
11	Conclusions and Challenges	240
	References	247
	Index	259