We are live with President Sebastián Piñera of Chile! 🇨🇱
Watch his #2020WCA presentation live: twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Jan Van Acker, president of emerging markets human health at Merck, introduces Piñera, who he notes, incidentally, grew up partly in Van Acker's home country of Belgium.
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It's been just over 3 decades since Chile peacefully recovered its democracy, during which time per capita income increase fivefold, poverty was reduced, and life expectancy is up, @sebastianpinera notes in his opening.
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Last October, Piñera says, Chile had to face big problems: an outbreak of violence that destroyed … many assets. But at the same time, a very strong demand from our population for more equality of opportunity, more social justice, better quality public services.
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Chile is a medium-income country, but we don’t want to get trapped at this stage. Our main goal is to become the first country in Latin America … to be able to defeat poverty and overcome underdevelopment.
— President of Chile @sebastianpinera at #2020WCA
Piñera lays out 4 ways to ride the wave of new technology:
1) Improve quality of education and skills training
2) Boost investment in tech and science
3) "Unleash forces of freedom and innovation entrepreneurship … the real renewable resources"
4) Modernize the state
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The problems we’re facing today cannot be solved by one country alone. We need collaboration more than ever. … Protectionism is not the answer.
— @sebastianpinera, president of Chile, speaking at #2020WCA
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Piñera says he hopes Chile's economic recovery from COVID-19 might be able to start early next year. #2020WCA
You can catch up on how the pandemic has affected the country—and how Piñera's administration has responded—with our tracker: as-coa.org/articles/coron…
And that wraps up today's #2020WCA event!
Mil gracias to President @sebastianpinera, our partners, members, and attendees. You can watch a video of the discussion here: as-coa.org/events/2020wca…
You can check out the rest of the #2020WCA virtual conference series and see who's speaking next here: as-coa.org/washington-con…
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