Do development considerations matter for exchange rate policy?

Chile was one of the world’s fastest-growing economies in the 1990s. Its growth rate of 6.8 percent per year from 1990 to 2000 (inclusive) was the seventh highest in the world, and by far the highest in Latin America. Poverty was halved, and while this was overwhelmingly due to growth rather than a...

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spelling oai-20.500.12580-37422021-04-24T11:02:01Z Do development considerations matter for exchange rate policy? Williamson, John TIPO DE CAMBIO POLÍTICA MONETARIA DESARROLLO ECONÓMICO BANCO CENTRAL DE CHILE Chile was one of the world’s fastest-growing economies in the 1990s. Its growth rate of 6.8 percent per year from 1990 to 2000 (inclusive) was the seventh highest in the world, and by far the highest in Latin America. Poverty was halved, and while this was overwhelmingly due to growth rather than a reduction in the concentration of income, public services became much more equitably distributed. Inflation fell progressively from over 20 percent at the beginning of the decade to under 4 percent at the end. My own explanation of this success centers on the well-rounded policy measures that were implemented in Chile over the period. The Central Bank was one of the institutions responsible for implementing these successful policies. 2019-11-01T00:04:06Z 2019-11-01T00:04:06Z 2008 Artículo 978-956-7421-30-5 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12580/3742 eng Series on Central Banking, Analysis, and Economic Policies, no. 12 Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Chile http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/cl/ .pdf Sección o Parte de un Documento p. 475-489 application/pdf CHILE Banco Central de Chile
institution Banco Central
collection Banco Central
language eng
topic TIPO DE CAMBIO
POLÍTICA MONETARIA
DESARROLLO ECONÓMICO
BANCO CENTRAL DE CHILE
spellingShingle TIPO DE CAMBIO
POLÍTICA MONETARIA
DESARROLLO ECONÓMICO
BANCO CENTRAL DE CHILE
Williamson, John
Do development considerations matter for exchange rate policy?
description Chile was one of the world’s fastest-growing economies in the 1990s. Its growth rate of 6.8 percent per year from 1990 to 2000 (inclusive) was the seventh highest in the world, and by far the highest in Latin America. Poverty was halved, and while this was overwhelmingly due to growth rather than a reduction in the concentration of income, public services became much more equitably distributed. Inflation fell progressively from over 20 percent at the beginning of the decade to under 4 percent at the end. My own explanation of this success centers on the well-rounded policy measures that were implemented in Chile over the period. The Central Bank was one of the institutions responsible for implementing these successful policies.
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title_full Do development considerations matter for exchange rate policy?
title_fullStr Do development considerations matter for exchange rate policy?
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