Chile has made tremendous progress towards greater economic prosperity and lower poverty. Per capita income more than doubled over 20 years to be the highest in Latin America. Chile enjoys a prudent fiscal policy and strong inflation-targeting framework, features that have been well-recognised by sovereign rating agencies. The financial sector is healthy, and the government has sought to broaden the productive base of the economy and to boost entrepreneurship and innovation through investments in education and the reduction of product-market entry barriers. Despite these achievements, key challenges contained in this report should continue to be addressed by the new government taking office in March 2014 following the 2013 presidential elections.