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The Chilean authorities plan to raise budgetary
allocations over the medium term for a variety of social
programmes, including education, health care and housing.
This incremental spending will need to be carried out in
a cost-efficient manner to make sure that it yields
commensurate improvements in social outcomes. Chile's
health indicators show that it fares relatively well in
relation to comparator countries in the OECD area and in
Latin America. But this is less so in the case of
education, where secondary and tertiary educational
attainment remain low, despite a significant increase
over the years, and performance is poor on the basis of
standardised test scores, such as PISA. Even though
comparison with countries in the OECD area is difficult,
a sizeable housing deficit has yet to be closed in Chile.
To meet these various challenges, efforts will need to be
stepped up to: i) narrow the disparities in performance
that currently exist among schools with students from
varying backgrounds through use of the "differentiated"
voucher scheme and additional measures to improve the
quality of teaching and management; ii) improve risk
sharing among private and public health insurers, while
increasing the coverage of health insurance to a broader
variety of pathologies under AUGE; and iii) continue to
tackle the shortage of housing, while enhancing the
quality of subsidised housing units and their surrounding
neighbourhoods for the poorest segments of society. This
paper relates to the "2007 Economic Survey of Chile"
(www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/chile). (Contains 9 footnotes,
10 figures, and 6 tables.)
Date Published: 2016-01-27 23:04:57
Identifier: ERIC_ED503922
Item Size: 25233041
Language: english
Media Type: texts
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