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20 November 2019

Claudia Sanhueza discusses in CNN Chile about the economic effects of the protests

The Director of CEAS participated in a television debate together with José de Gregorio and Bernardo Larraín

On November 17 the Director of the Center for Economics and Social Policies, Claudia Sanhueza, was part of a debate with José de Gregorio and Bernardo Larraín, in the program of CNN Chile, “Nuevo Pacto”. The discussion revolved around the economic consequences of the social outbreak and a new constitution, since it is projected that mobilizations can affect and precarize employment.

Although the panel talked about promoting economic growth, Claudia Sanhueza clarified that currently higher growth implies that, although the income of the entire distribution increases in the same proportion, there is a great inequality between the increase in income of the working class compared to the well-off class.

According to Claudia Sanhueza, growth cannot be isolated from social objectives, which have been relegated by the State, so we must think about how to foster growth in a sustainable way with the environment and society, which involves the implementation of redistributive policies and a change in a constitution that turned Chile into a subsidiary state that strengthens the private sector and that constitutionalized the neo-liberal development model.

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