Material about Chile and its activities with the IMF ...

A liberal essay refuting the myth that Chile is a right-wing economic miracle.

Invisible Hand and Iron Fist by Alejandro Ruess Dollars and Sense magazine Nov/Dec 1999 After taking power in a 1973 coup, General Augusto Pinochet ruled Chile for 17 years. As of earlier this year, he had every reason to believe he would never be prosecuted for the atrocities committed by his regime. The Chilean military had granted itself a blanket amnesty, and Pinochet himself enjoyed ...

Sarah Hagberg INTS 4763 Paper #4 An analysis of Chile's pensions scheme in a post-Pinochet society Chile's transition to democracy following almost two decades of military dictatorship began under the slogan of Growth with Equity , a catchphrase synonymous with President Aylwin's government. Before the demise of General Pinochet's military regime, the number of Chileans living in poverty ...

Alice Bettencourt March 12, 1999 Welfare #4 Chilean Economic Reform: Beneficial for the Upper Class or for All To the majority of Chileans, the end of the Pinochet regime in 1990 was gift from Heaven. After seventeen years of a murderous dictatorship consisting of a combination of political repression but also with economic reform, Chileans were able to determine their own political and ...

Chile: Social Equity By Inke Fabian The new theoretical background In the Nineties, important theorists proclaimed to stop the common thinking in antagonisms like laissez-faire versus dirigisme or structuralism versus monetarism . (Rosenthal 1996: 8) Adjustment and stabilisation had been approached at extremely high social costs. It then partly was the East Asian experience which taught to ...

From the Socialist Experiment to the Military Regime the Structural Rupture of Social Systems By J rg Sancho Pernas Introduction Salvador Gossens Allende is often called the first democratically elected socialist president in world history. The period of his rule in Chile between 1970 and 1973 witnessed an attempt to construct a Chilean path towards socialism with great creativity and ...