Women in the region: major changes / Miriam Krawczyk. -- The Pacific Basin and Latin America / Dae Won Choi. -- Strategic management, planning and budgets / Juan M. F. Martín P. and Arturo Núñez del Prado. -- The internationalization of Latin American industrial firms / Wilson Peres Núñez. -- Water property rights and the State: The United States experience / Cart J. Bauer. -- Poverty and adjustment: the case of Honduras / Jorge Navarro. -- The trade union system: its background and future prospects / Fernando Calderón G. -- Shaping competitiveness in the Chilean wood-processing industry / Dirk Messner. -- improving urban transport for the poor / Ian Thomson. -- Privatizations and social welfare / Robert Devlin.