In this wide-ranging interview, Chilean finance minister Andres Velasco speaks about Chile's privatization of social security, its past and present fiscal policy, and the lessons advisors have learned from economic cycles of the past.
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Extended Interview
October 14, 2009
How Chile weathered the global economic downturn
Signature Video
October 13, 2009
Chile squirrels away copper fortunes and spends prudently
Correspondent Edie Magnus reports on how the Chilean government has prudently managed its windfall copper profits. Chile is now financing public works projects, creating jobs and doling out cash stipends to the poor.
Signature Video
January 29, 2009
Canada’s free health care comes with long lines
Though Canada's universal health care model has effectively cut administrative costs, the system comes with flaws -- long lines have sent some Canadians to private clinics.
Signature Video
January 28, 2009
Canada’s hospitals cut the paperwork, emphasize care
Canada has worked to cut administrative costs attached to medical care. Now, basic health care is universal and, in most parts of the country, free -- and remarkably little paperwork is involved.
Extended Interview
January 28, 2009
How the U.S. measures up to Canada’s health care system
Uwe Reinhardt, a leading adviser on health care economics and professor at Princeton University, compares the Canadian and American health care systems and criticizes the U.S. health care culture despite his optimism about the Obama administration.
Signature Video
January 26, 2009
The highs and lows of universal health care in Brazil
In Brazil, health care is free. By law, everyone has a right to treatment, and as a result, infant mortality is down and life expectancy is up. But there are drawbacks -- offering so much has put a strain on the health system.
Signature Video
November 25, 2008
Brazil emerges as an oil giant
Worldfocus explores the P-51 offshore oil platform near Angra dos Reis, which for many represents not only the future of oil exploration but also the future of Brazil.
Signature Series
November 7, 2008
Brazil Today: Religion, ethanol and roads
"Brazil Today" is a series that explores Brazil's spiking conversion to Pentecostalism, its pioneering path toward energy independence and its improving - but expensive - roadways.
Blogwatch / Video
November 6, 2008
Catholic Brazilians convert to the Pentecostal church
From the favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro to television screens across the nation, Pentecostals are gaining in numbers and influence in Brazil -- at the expense of the Catholic church.
Signature Video
November 4, 2008
More tolls, but better roads in Brazil
Brazil has experienced explosive economic growth the past several years, but its infrastructure kept pace.
