Det går bra för Chile, och Magnus Linton och Johan Norberg träter om orsaken: Är Chile ett exempel på att nyliberalism ökar allas välstånd?
Som indikator på nyliberalism använder Johan Fraser-institutets economic freedom index (även i sin Naomi Klein-kritik):
In 1990, as Pinochet was voted out of office, Chile got 6.6 in economic freedom [...] and "neo-liberal" Venezuela got no more than 5.5. After five years of leftist governments in Chile, its economic freedom score was improved to 7.5, and Venezuela´s "neo-liberal" policies had reduced economic freedom to 4.2. Today Chile gets 7.8 and Venezuela 4.9.Min invändning: ökning av EFW-index är en dålig indikator på nyliberalism. Indexet mäter följande:
Welfare state reform in Chile has involved the privatisation of the pension system with workers obligated to place 1.3% of their monthly salaries in an individual account with a private pension fund.
Educational reform involved decentralisation with responsibility for running schools passed down to municipalities. Competition was encouraged by allocating state funding to schools based on the number of pupils they could attract.
Private schools run by for-profit companies were also allowed to compete for state subsidised pupils, and can now also charge top-up fees.
Healthcare reform also involved decentralisation and partial privatisation of the system, with workers obligated to purchase health insurance from either the state system or a private health fund. Article discusses the inefficiencies and inequities arising from these reforms.
Källa: The reformulation of social policy in Chile 1973-2001: Questioning a neo-liberal model, M. Taylor, Global Social Policy, vol. 3, 2003, p.21-44