The Inter-American Development Bank is an international development finance institution headquartered in Washington,D.C.,United States of America,and serving as one of the leading sources of development financing for independent countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Established in 1959,the IDB supports Latin American and Caribbean economic development,social development and regional integration by lending to governments and government agencies,including State corporations.
Andrés Velasco Brañes is a Chilean economist and professor who served as Minister of Finance in the first government of President Michelle Bachelet from March 2006 to March 2010. He is currently the Dean of the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics.
The Ministry of Finance of Chile is the cabinet-level administrative office in charge of managing the financial affairs,fiscal policy,and capital markets of Chile;planning,directing,coordinating,executing,controlling and informing all financial policies formulated by the President of Chile.
JoséDe Gregorio Rebeco is a Chilean economist,academic,researcher,consultant and politician. He has been the Governor of the Central Bank of Chile,Minister of the Economy,Mining and Energy during the administration of Ricardo Lagos and is currently the Dean of the School of Economics and Business of the Universidad de Chile. He is also a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
JoséPablo Arellano Marin is an economist,academic,researcher,company director,consultant and Chilean politician,current member of Amarillos por Chile. He was Minister of Education under the governments of Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle and of Michelle Bachelet,chief executive officer of Codelco-Chile,a state-owned company and also the largest company in the country. His father was JoséArellano,a Falangist former mayor of Cartagena and former president of the Association of Municipalities of the time. He died when Arellano was just four years old. He has been married since 1975 to the preschool teacher and landscape designer María Elena (Manena) Recabarren,and they have four children,JoséPablo,Magdalena,Andrés and Francisca.
Jorge Rosenblut Ratinoff is a Chilean engineer,academic,businessman,consultant and the former president of ENDESA;the Latin American branch of the Italian-based ENEL Group.
Ricardo Ffrench-Davis is a Chilean economist. He is Professor of the Department of Economics and the Instituto de Estudios Internacionales at the University of Chile. Along with a few other Chilean students,Ffrench-Davis got the chance to study at the University of Chicago in the 1960s. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 1971,where his dissertation was supervised by Larry Sjaastad. Although the students were later named Chicago Boys,Professor Ffrench-Davis was a critic of the neo-liberal policies implemented in Chile by the Pinochet dictatorship.
Clarisa Rut Hardy Raskovan is an Argentinian-born psychologist,anthropologist,writer and politician from Chile,Minister for Social Development and Planning during the first term of Michelle Bachelet.
Eduardo Engel is the former president and current board member of the think tank Espacio Público and professor at the Department of Economics of the University of Chile. From 2001 to 2012 he was Professor of Economics at the Yale University. He chaired the Presidential Advisory Council on Conflicts of Interest,Influence Peddling,and Corruption –also known as the Engel Commission –in 2015.
Rosanna María Assunta Costa Costa is a Chilean economist,academic,and researcher. She currently serves as the Governor of the Central Bank of Chile and previously held the position of head of the Ministry of Finance's Budget Office during Sebastián Piñera's first presidency from 2010 to 2014.
Azucena María Arbeleche Perdomo is a Uruguayan professor,economist and civil servant who serves as Minister of Economy and Finance of Uruguay since 1 March 2020 under president Luis Lacalle Pou,being the first woman to hold that office.
Diario Financiero is a Chilean economic newspaper founded by a group of journalists from the Economy and Business Corps of El Mercurio on October 25,1988. It is currently controlled by the Claro Group. The tabloid has been using the orange paper that distinguishes economic media in the world since its June 19,1989 edition,such as the Financial Times and Il Sole 24 ORE. Its main competence is the "Economy and Business" body of El Mercurio,Pulso of the Copesa and Estrategia.
Helia Águeda Molina Milman is a Chilean physician,educator,and politician. She served as Minister of Public Health in 2014,during the second government of Michelle Bachelet. She is currently a professor at the University of Santiago's Faculty of Medical Sciences.
Rodrigo Andrés Cerda Norambuena is a Chilean economist and politician. Between March 2018 and December 2019,he served as Budget Director. He afterwards served as Minister of Finance under the second government of Sebastián Piñera between January 2021 and March 2022.
RenéCortázar is a Chilean economist,researcher,academic,and politician of the Christian Democratic Party (PDC).
Ricardo Alejandro Solari Saavedra is a Chilean economist and politician who served as leader during the governments of Patricio Aylwin (1990−1994),Ricardo Lagos (2000–2006) and Michelle Bachelet (2014−2018).
Inflation in Chile has been a significant issue for the economy since the start of the 20th century. During the 2020s Chile again surfaced as an economic problem during the second presidency of Sebastián Piñera and has remained such. Current inflation has been attributed to a series of private pension fund withdrawals allowed by the Congress of Chile in response to the economic hardships of the COVID-19 pandemic in Chile. Besides this,food prices are held by the Food and Agriculture Organization to have increased as consequence of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Rodrigo Vergara Montes is a Chilean economist and academic. He served as president of the Central Bank of Chile from December 2011 to December 2016. His appointment as president of the Chilean issuing institute,decided by President Sebastián Piñera,to whom he was a close advisor on issues related to overcoming poverty,was the first for this position made by a center- right since the return to democracy in 1990.
Miguel Braun Cortés is an Argentine economist and policymaker who served was Secretary of Commerce of the Ministry of Production (2015–2018) and Secretary of Economic Policy of the Ministry of Finance (2018–2019) of the Argentine Republic.
