Export Dynamism and Growth in Chile since the 1980’s Ricardo Ffrench-Davis

The high export growth that Chile witnessed started from the seventies, and was supposedly triggered off by the trade liberalising reforms in that period. A more detailed look into the export pattern reveals separate and distinct phases not always of high growth, and which were clearly determined by the macroeconomic policies and the specific nature of the reform programmes that were in existence in each of these phases over the last three decades.

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