Chile: Country Strategy Paper 2002-2006 and National Indicative Programme 2002-2006

In 2002, the European Union published the country strategy paper for Chile in order to unveil the National Indicative Programme for this country between 2002 and 2006.

This paper reminded that Chile is increasingly considered and treated internationally as a developed country. Politically democracy seems consolidated now, socially Chile has improved
over the last years in terms of healthcare, life expectancy, education and housing, and economically, the Chilean economy has proven stable enough to resist recent
financial crisis, that severely affected neighbouring countries.

Still, there are areas of improvement. The Chilean production and exports are intoo concentrated on few commodities and the price fluctuation of these commodities has an impact on the overall economy. The very structure of the economy also has a negative impact on the environment and calls for measures to preserve the sustainability of the Chilean development model. Another area of improvement is social equity: the income distribution is still very inequitable and there is a gap between men and women, between richer regions and poorer regions.

ESO: Key Source: Relations between Chile and the European Union http://www.europeansources.info/record/relations-between-chile-and-the-european-union/

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