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export. State support was focused on any businesses, private or public, operating within the
Franja. The main difference between the second and third periods is the concentration of
government resources within a given region, the Franja, and efforts directed at specific industries,
cattle cultivation and cotton.
The economic development policies in the fourth and fifth periods deviate from the first
second and third. General Lucas’ administration used the foreign aid from the earthquake to
stimulate economic development. But, the economic development was not concentrated at
diversifying agricultural exports or modernizing agriculture. Instead the economic development
policies were almost solely focused on business ventures for members of the military
establishment, areas of the economy the military entered were not restricted to agriculture;
finance, construction, industrialization were a few of the business sectors the military began to
monopolize. General Montt’s economic development policies, and to a lesser extent General
Victores, offer the largest departure of any of the time periods. Economic development policies
between 1982 and 1985 were prioritized below state security and were viewed as a means of
maintaining state security. Policies for economic development involved considerable state
involvement in setting up and monitoring development poles in rural areas. This time period does
not exactly fit the pattern of the framework.
The fallout from the excesses of President Lucas and President Montt were reflected in
the economic policies adopted by President Cerezo, President Serrano, and President Carpio’s
administrations. Each economic development policy had elements of austerity, reform, and
adjustment. The willingness and ability of the state to play an interventionist role in the economy
was greatly restricted during this time period. In the late 1980s and early 1990s attempts to
achieve economic development focused on removing tariffs, opening markets to trade, increasing
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