The latest statistics about economic activities and employment show Chile's economy is beginning to recover, Chilean President Michelle Bachelet said on Monday.
As a country, "we begin to leave the crisis, we are turning," Bachelet said during an official event held in the west of Santiago.
The economic growth data published on Monday showed that the last six months of this year would be better than the first half, Treasury Minister Andres Velasco said.
He said the consumption and construction sectors had registered a growth of 0.4 percent, as a result of the economic stimulus package.
But the month-by-month figures were quite different from the year-on-year ones, he said.
Velasco said that the year-on-year growth rate was negative, but with the month-by-month positive growth in some sectors, the negative growth was less than what many experts had forecasted.
Chile's Central Bank reported on Monday that according to experts' estimates, the country's economy contracted 2.7 percent in July.