Poverty and Inequality in Chile

Are Democratic Politics and Neoliberal Economics Good for You

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5045708
AutoresDavid E Hojman (University of Liverpool, autor correspondente)
Ano1996
Volume38
Fascículo2-3
Páginas73-96
Data de publicação1996-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-1937 • E-ISSN: 2162-2736
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/166361
OpenAlexW2783686329
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas15
Referências citadas15

This article examines whether the free-market, open-economy model adopted by Chile's civilian, democratically elected administrations - of Patricio Aylwin (after March 1990) and Eduardo Frei (after March 1994) - has affected the country's distribution of income and degree of poverty and, if so, how. The free-market model was inherited from the military regime headed by General Pinochet (1973-1990) and adopted by his civilian successors almost without modification despite the fact that the post-1990 administrations were explicitly committed to making alleviation of poverty and reduction of inequalities in income a top priority. The article examines the extent to which the determinants of poverty and inequality have changed (if, indeed, they have changed at all) since the end of the military regime in 1990 - and if so, why

Democracy · Development economics · Distribution (mathematics) · Economic growth · Economic inequality · Economics · Free market · Income distribution · Inequality · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Poverty reduction · Latin American socio-political dynamics · Law · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Politics and Society in Latin America