• December, 2011

    Chile’s goal of becoming a developed country by 2020, which means raising per capita GDP to US$23,000 from US$15,000 currently, seems like climbing Mount Everest. It is a long way off and getting there will...

  • December, 2011

    The state of Massachusetts in the northeastern United States doesn’t have oil, gas, coal or corn – its main natural resource is brain power. Home to Harvard University and many other universities and...

  • December, 2011

    With global economic uncertainty continuing to cause volatility in commodities prices and Chile’s state-owned copper company Codelco facing a drawn-out legal dispute with Anglo American, you might expect...

  • November, 2011

    As 2011 draws to a close there are substantial risks in the global economy that Chile cannot afford to ignore. These are focused in Europe, but the fallout from the debt crisis in that continent could have...

  • October, 2011

    Chile’s main economic indicators give Chilean companies every reason to be optimistic about the future, but according to Lorenzo Constans, president of the Confederation for Production and Commerce (CPC),...

  • August, 2011

    When Chilean fruit is loaded on a ship bound for the US Eastern Seaboard, chances are it is headed to the Port of Wilmington in the...

  • August, 2011

    For Chile’s small,...

  • July, 2011

    Downtown Santiago has become a battleground in the last few months. Fed up with what they see as lack of progress in areas ranging from education and the environment to gay rights, thousands of Chileans have...

  • June, 2011

    Four years after a fleet of new green-and-white buses hit the streets as part of Santiago’s public transport system Transantiago, they have become like their predecessors – the yellow “micros” that used to...

  • December, 2010

    In business, as in life, nothing is permanent except change. For companies in today’s globalized markets, innovation – from the Latin ‘novus’ meaning new – is a necessary tool for survival, but it takes money...