Sovereign risk: Chile’s enduring miracle

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The year 1985 was marked by the implementation of the most important set of economic reforms ever to be introduced in Latin America. ‘The miracle of Chile’, as Milton Friedman was to call it later, was forged by the country’s finance minister between 1985 and 1989, Hernán Büchi.