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According to the latest Business Environment rankings for 2008-2012 published by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), Chile currently occupies the 20th place among the most attractive countries to do business, on the basis of an environment formed by the 82 best economies in the world.
Chile’s position, with respect to attractiveness for investment, clearly exceeds that of all other countries in Latin America, in all of the dimensions under evaluation. The country was also ahead of Japan, Spain, Poland and South Korea, among others.
This is due to a constant average economic growth of 5% per year in the last decade, the exceptional levels of macroeconomic stability reached by the country, a solid financial system, low inflation, low debt in relation to the Internal Gross Product (4,1 % of the GDP), a healthy budgetary surplus (4,7 % of the GDP), stable change and almost no political risk.
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