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CHILE’S
NATIONAL
VOLUNTARY
PRESENTATION
Mrs. Paula Quintana Meléndez
Minister of Planning
ECOSOC, Nueva York, 2 July 2008
DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
•
Economic Development
•
Social Development
•
Democracy
In accordance with the Millennium
Development Goals.
Between 1999 and 2007:
•The economy grew at an average
annual rate of 5.4%.
•Today, 2 out of every 3 dollars of public
spending is designated to social
investment.
OVERCOMING POVERTY
During the democratic period poverty has been
reduced to almost a third and extreme poverty to less
than a fourth
38.6
32.9
Poor
Extreme Poor
27.6
25.6
23.2
23.9
21.7
20.2
20.0
17.5
16.1
18.7
13.7
14.6
14.0
10.5
13.0
9.0
7.6
5.7
1990
1992
1994
1996
5.6
1998
5.6
2000
4.7
2003
Evolution of Poverty and Extreme Poverty 1990 - 2006 (%)
3.2
2006
QUALITY OF LIFE AND SOCIAL INTEGRATION
Sustained reduction in infant mortality rate
16.0
11.1
8.9
1990
1995
2000
Infant Mortality Rate
(children under the age of 1)
7.9
2005
REORIENTATION OF SOCIAL POLICY
•From assistance policy to a rights focus
•Identifying major vulnerabilities
•Creation of the Chile
Solidario Social Protection
System, oriented to families
in extreme poverty (since
2002)
Today’s Task…
LAUNCHING A SOCIAL PROTECTION
SYSTEM…
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With a focus on rights:
guaranteed and demandable.
•
Assists throughout the life
cycle: from gestation to old age.
•
We have moved on from goals
of quantity to those of quality.
MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS IN THE SOCIAL
PROTECTION SYSTEM
• Integral Protection to Early Childhood:
Chile Crece Contigo
• Reform to the Pension System
• Reforms in the Health System
• Chile Solidario System
CHALLENGES
Reduce inequities…
•
In income distribution
•
In gender: labor market and political
participation
•
In the quality of education
Thank you very much…