Latin American and Caribbean development in the 1980s and the outlook for the future /Gert Rosenthal. -- Features and phases of the "Swedish model” / Olof Ruin. -- Comments on the paper by Professor Olof Ruin / Adolfo Gurrieri. -- Sweden and Latin America: comments on the paper by Professor Olof Ruin / Francisco C. W effort. -- The incorporation of women in development policies / Cecilia López M. and Molly Pollack E. -- An overview of social development in Brazil / Sonia Miriam Draibe. -- Integration trends in the Brazilian labour market / Claudio Salm and Luiz C. Eichenberg. -- The United States government’s Caribbean Basin Initiative / Wilfred Whittingham. -- The technological potential of the primary export sector / Mikio Kuwayama. -- On Argentine-Brazilian economic integration / Daniel Chudnovsky and Fernando Porta. -- The centre-periphery system and unequal exchange / Edgardo Floto.