Democracy and economics. Gert Rosenthal, Executive Secretary, ECLAC. External events, domestic policies and structural adjustment. Carlos Massad. Latin America and the new finance and trade flows. Robert Devlin and Martine Guergil. The competitiveness of Latin American industry. Gérard Picket. Europe 92 and the Latin American economy. Miguel Izam. The competitiveness of the small economies of the region. Rudolf Buitelaar and Juan Alberto Puentes. Transfer of technology; the case of the Chile Foundation. TorbenHuss. Debt conversion and territorial change. Antonio Daher. The State and poverty in Costa Rica. Marvin Taylor-Dormond. Prebisch and the relation between agriculture and industry. Carlos Cattaneo. Celso Furtado: Doctor Honoris Causa. 'Wilson Cano.