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Savings in Chile: What Went Right?

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Felipe G. Morandé

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Some analysts rank Chile as the only Latin American economy that qualifies as a `take-off economy,` or development economy. In a sense, Chile`s enduring success and proved insulation from the `Tequila effect` are due to its high national savings. What has made Chile`s savings so high? What were some key policies implemented? Did the structural and liberalizing reforms of the late 1970s and 1980s have anything to do with it? This paper tries to empirically disentangle some of the puzzles with historical data that span the 1960-1995 period.

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Paper provided by Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department in its series RES Working Papers with number 4030.

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  1. Sebastian Edwards, 1996. "The Chilean Pension Reform: A Pioneering Program," NBER Working Papers 5811, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  2. Yan Wang & Dianqing Xu & Zhi Wang & FanZhai, 2001. "Implicit pension debt, transition cost, options, and impact of China's pension reform : a computable general equilibrium analysis," Policy Research Working Paper Series 2555, The World Bank. [Downloadable!]
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  7. Andrea Butelmann & Francisco Gallego, 2000. "Household Saving in Chile: Microeconomic Evidence," Working Papers Central Bank of Chile 63, Central Bank of Chile. [Downloadable!]
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  8. James, Estelle, 1997. "New systems for old age security - theory, practice, and empirical evidence," Policy Research Working Paper Series 1766, The World Bank. [Downloadable!]
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