Chile is one of in the OECD that outrank the US gap between the rich and the poor, according to the organization鈥檚 surveys. (The two others are Mexico and Turkey.) Long the economic darling of Latin America, Chile enjoyed a decade of stable and strong growth rates, bringing the highest GDP per capita in Latin America outside the Caribbean. But these robust numbers mask the within the OECD.
Much of Chile鈥檚 economic boom is linked to . As is the case for many resource-based economies, profits have accrued inordinately to the small percentage of the population employed in these extraction industries.
