Aníbal Pinto Santa Cruz (; 1919 – 3 January 1996) was a

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

economist An economist is a professional and practitioner in the social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy. Within this field there are ...

known for his work on

dependency theory Dependency theory is the notion that resources flow from a " periphery" of poor and underdeveloped states to a " core" of wealthy states, enriching the latter at the expense of the former. A central contention of dependency theory is that poor ...

and

structuralist economics Structuralist economics is an approach to economics that emphasizes the importance of taking into account structural features (typically) when undertaking economic analysis. The approach originated with the work of the Economic Commission for Lati ...

. From 1960 to 1965 he was director of the

United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, known as ECLAC, UNECLAC or in Spanish and Portuguese CEPAL, is a United Nations regional commission to encourage economic cooperation. ECLAC includes 46 member States (2 ...

office in Río de Janeiro. In 1995 he received Chile's National Prize for Humanities and Social Sciences. He was married to ballerina Malucha Solari and the couple had three children, including the actress

Malucha Pinto Malucha Pinto Solari (born 16 April 1955) is a Chilean actress, theater director, playwright and politician. Biography The daughter of Aníbal Pinto Santa Cruz (and direct descendant of the presidents Francisco Antonio Pinto and Aníbal Pinto ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pinto Santa Cruz, Anibal 1919 births 1996 deaths People from Santiago 20th-century Chilean economists University of Chile alumni Academic staff of the University of Chile Alumni of the London School of Economics