Chile 1820–2020: a case of frustrated development?

Cristian Ducoing and Marc Badia-Miró

Chapter 15 in The Elgar Companion to the Economies of Latin America and the Caribbean, 2025, pp 322-335 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: More than six decades ago, Aníbal Pinto Santa Cruz (1959) published his pivotal work, Chile, a case of frustrated development. Almost 65 years later, this concept has been reborn under the massive protests and social unrest of 2019, the COVID pandemic, and the new lithium cycle. Chile, the former “Latin American Miracle,” has become an unstable and troublesome state, not particularly different from its Latin American neighbors. In this chapter, we provide a quantitative assessment of the Chilean economy over 200 years. One of the main points that have been overlooked in the Chilean economic history literature has been the (un)sustainable aspects of Chile's economic development. We address this point using complementary measures, such as the exploitation of natural resources, mixed environmental indicators, and adjusted net savings. The main results show a lack of convergence with the leading economies and a contested leadership in the Latin American context.

Keywords: Chile; Sustainable Development; Economic History; Natural Resources; Mining (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035317196
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