World’s Copper King Is Finally Kicking the Habit After 50 Years
- President Bachelet says productivity drive set to bear fruit
- Chile’s growth has stalled since copper prices tumbled in 2014
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President Michelle Bachelet says her administration has laid the basis to achieve what no other Chilean government has managed to do for half a century -- break the nation’s copper addiction.
The emphasis on productivity, innovation, education and research is changing the economic culture of the country, Bachelet said in an interview in the presidential palace in Santiago Friday. The Socialist party-member spoke as she enters into the last year of her second four-year term.