International competitiveness; agreed goal, hard task / Fernando Fajnzylber. -- Industrial revolution, technological paradigm and regional alternatives / Hugo J. Nochteff. -- Technical change and productive restructuring / Eugenio Lahera. -- Notes on microelectronic automation in Brazil / José Ricardo Tauile. -- Exports and industrialization in Argentina, 1973-1986 / Daniel Azpiazú and Bernardo Kosacoff. -- Rural social policy in a strategy of sustained development / John Durston.-- Interaction between the public and private sectors and the overall efficiency of the economy / Juan M.F. Martin. -- Cuba’s convertible currency debt problem / A.R.M. Ritter. -- Food security: trends and impact of the crisis / Alexander Schejtman. -- Economies of difficult viability: an option to be examined / Arturo Núñez del Prado. -- The genesis of import substitution in Latin America / Richard Lynn Ground.