Includes bibliographical references and index.

Empirical puzzles of Chilean stabilization policy / Guillermo A. Calvo and Enrique G. Mendoza -- Comment: An alternative view of Chile's macroeconomic policy / Roberto Zahler -- Chile's take-off : facts, challenges, lessons / Klaus Schmidt-Hebbel -- C apital markets in Chile, 1985-97 : a case of successful international financial integration / Nicolas Eyzaguirre and Fernando Lefort -- Market and state principles of reform in Chilean education : policies and results / Cristiâan Cox and Marâia Josâe Lemaitre -- Health sector reforms in Chile / Osvaldo Larra?naga -- Poverty and income distribution in a high-growth economy : Chile, 1987-95 / Alberto Valdâes -- Effectiveness of the State and development lessons from the Chilean experience / Mario Marcel -- Privatizing and regulating Chile's utilities, 1974-2000 : successes, failures, and outstanding challenges / Eduardo Bitrâan, Antonio Estache, Josâe Luis Guasch, and Pablo Serra -- Chile's political economy in the 1990s : some governance issues / Alejandro Foxley T. and Claudio Sapelli.