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28/10/2005 - The OECD will publish its latest economic survey of Chile, including a special study on encouraging innovation, on Friday 4 November 2005.

The survey will be available to journalists in English on the OECD's password-protected website at 1.00 p.m. Paris time (12:00 GMT; 9.00 a.m. in Santiago) for immediate release. 

A Policy Brief with the main conclusions will be freely accessible in pdf format (in English and French) on the OECD’s web site at www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/chile on Friday 4 November. You are invited to include this internet link in reports on the survey.

The survey will be presented and discussed by Chile’s Finance Minister Nicolas Eyzaguirre Guzman, OECD Country Study Director Val Koromzay and OECD economists Luiz de Mello and Nanno Mulder from 9.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. on Friday 4 November at the Hotel Ritz-Carlton, calle El Alcalde No. 15, Las Condes, Santiago, Chile. For further information about the event which is open to the press, journalists should e-mail: presentacio_ocde@hacienda.gov.cl; or tel: 4732145.

The publication is divided into the following chapters:

• Assessment and recommendations,
• Fostering long-term growth: the challenges ahead,
• Entrenching macroeconomic stability,
• Encouraging innovation,
• Strengthening regulation in network industries,
• Making better use of labour resources.

Journalists will be allowed advance access to the electronic version of the publication, by e-mail and under embargo, four hours ahead of release time. For journalists in Asia/Pacific time zones such advance access is allowed 12 hours ahead of release time.

The study will be sent by e-mail on request only. In asking to receive the survey under embargo, journalists undertake to respect the OECD’s embargo procedures. Requests to receive the survey by e-mail under embargo or to obtain a password to access the website should be sent by e-mail to Nicole Le Vourch in the OECD’s Media Relations Division.