Institution
CORFO
CORFO, the Production Development Corporation, is a Chilean state agency founded in 1939 by the Popular Front government of Pedro Aguirre Cerda, after the Chillán earthquake. It financed and created key national enterprises in electricity, oil, steel and sugar, becoming the main instrument of state-led industrialisation. It continues to support innovation and private enterprise.
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