Las bases materiales del sector exportador chileno : un análisis input-output

This study aims to reattribute the materials that were used by Chilean economy in 1996 according to its foreign final demand. An input-output (IO) methodology has been applied. In 1996 the Chilean economy requested 500 million tons of direct material inputs (DMI). The results showed that the exporting sector of Chile, which represented 38% of the GDP in 1996, used a total of 399 million tons of the DMI incorporated into the economy. The foreign final demand of copper commodity was responsible for 316 of the 399 million tons of DMI. These findings indicated that if the external sector of Chilean economy was a motor of economic growth, we needed to highlight the fact that it represented 80% of direct material flow that was used by the economy. Without doubt, these are only a few of the environmental load associated to the intense exportation of natural resources in Chile.