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Yea, my bet is on the the discussion over on the presidential thread will have far more impact on Chile than the OECD or any of the other alphabet soup of international organizations. I would bet 99.9% of the Chilean population has no clue what the OECD is or cares. Hell, I don't know what the OECD is or care.

Go have a look around their web site. It is mostly gibberish geared towards imposing standards regarding problems that don't exist.
http://www.oecd.org/

Here is a good one. This one on foreign bribery (i.e. Chileans bribing in foreign countries) is the funniest. The report was compiled by Argentineans and Mexican experts. They seem overly emphasis their nationality as if they where the authorities on bribery (well, I guess they are in a sense):
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/38/10/39540391.pdf

They kept repeating over and over again how Chilean businesses had no policies, education programs, or prosecution of bribery in foreign countries. They would not even entertain the idea that there was none because there is no serious problem with it.

They keep insisting this is a problem, even when told by companies in Chile bluntly that they don't do business in markets where bribery is an issue or they simply have no foreign business transactions of any sort. Why would a company spend resources on foreign bribery training, policies, and enforcement if they don't have any foreign business?

Among many others they insist Chile conduct eduction of small and medium size businesses on foreign bribery. How many small businesses in Chile do business in foreign countries, let alone find themselves in situations where bribery is a possibility? I bet it is a few hundred perhaps at most, and a thousand at the outside. Their impact on both Chile's GDP and the foreign country where the hypothetical bribe is an issue is nearly none existent. It would be quicker and easier to simply buy out the companies that are exposed to those market, rather than waist 10 times the money on useless education programs.

When Chileans run to bribery situations, it is most likely in dealing with Argentina and Mexican markets.