For the past two decades Chile has been rather well-governed by the Concertacion, a centre-left coalition. For much of that time it was the one Latin country that recorded an Asian rate of economic growth. The share of Chileans living in pov-rnerty fell from 38.6% in 1990 to 13.7% in 2006, and education, health care and pensions are now much more widely available. Public-private partnerships have built the best infrastructure in the region. Chile is widely held up as a model for Latin America, a status underlined this week by an invitation to join the OECD, a rich-country club.
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