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Waiting for the Forest Law: Resource-Led Development and Environmental Politics in Chile

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Roger Alex Clapp
Roger Alex Clapp*
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University of Toronto
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Chile has gained a reputation as the Latin American economic success story of the 1990s. Domestic savings rates are high, foreign investment continues to expand, inflation remains single-digit, and economic growth has averaged 6 percent annually from 1984 to 1995. In the seven years of democratic government since 1989, the poor have begun to share some of the benefits of this growth. From 1989 to 1993, unemployment fell from 12.2 percent to 4.9 percent, and social expenditures increased by a third in real terms (Hojman 1995). But Chile's impressive recent record of sustained economic development coupled with improvements in social justice has incurred significant environmental costs that raise doubts about the ecological sustainability of the Chilean model (Meller, O'Ryan, and Solimano 1996).

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Research Article
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , 1998 , pp. 3 - 36
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Copyright © 1998 by the University of Texas Press

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I am grateful to Carolyn Crook, Joe McBride, Jim Parsons, Dick Walker, and Michael Watts for their helpful comments. I also thank three anonymous LARR referees, whose careful reading and suggestions have substantially improved this study. Remaining errors of fact and interpretation are my responsibility. This article draws on dissertation research funded by the Inter-American Foundation and the Institute for the Study of World Politics, whose support is gratefully acknowledged.

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