The bigness of smallness: The financial crisis, its contagion mechanisms and its effects in Latin America / Daniel Titelman, Esteban Perez Caldentey, Ramon Pineda. -- Poverty reduction in Latin America: the role of demographic, social and economic factors / Jaime Ros. -- Youth and feelings of belonging in Latin America: causes and risks of social fragmentation / Gonzalo A. Saravi. -- Trade policy reform and poverty: successes and failures in Central America / Marco V. Sanchez-Cantillo. -- The impact of remittances on macroeconomic stability: the cases of Mexico and Central America / Eliseo Diaz Gonzalez. -- Determinants of world manufacturing exports to China, 1990-2006 / Roberto Alvarez E., Eugenio Figueroa B., Maria Pia Figueroa Z. and Macarena Palma E.-- Latin America: highlights from the implementation of the System of National Accounts / Roberto Olinto Ramos, Gonzalo Pastor and Lisbeth Rivas. -- Social benefits in Uruguay: why do some potentialbeneficiaries not apply? / Gabriel Burdin and Gioia de Melo. -- Socio-economic and geographic profiling of crime in Chile / Mauro Gutierrez, Javier Nunez and Jorge Rivera Latin American structuralism and economic theory / Armando Di Filippo. -- Recent ECLAC publications.