It is one of only four countries (along with Brazil, Panama, and the Dominican Republic) that have managed to reduce the per capita income gap with the United States since 1960. As the IADB has pointed out in several earlier reports, productivity has been stagnant in most of Latin America for a half-century or more.
智利的增长问题是地区内最轻微的。它是该地区仅有的自1960年以来与美国人均收入差距缩小的四个国家之一（另三国是巴西、巴拿马和多米尼加）。泛美开发银行在此前的多份报告中指出，拉丁美洲大部分国家生产率处于停滞状态已逾半个世纪。