The conduct of Latin America’s creditor banks / Michael Mortimore. -- Options for tackling the external debt problem / Robert Devlin. -- Latin America’s prospects in the financial markets / Alfred J. Watkins. -- Criticisms and suggestions on the cross-conditionality of the IMF and the World Bank / Patricio Meller. -- Options for regional integration / Eduardo Gana and Augusto Bermudez. -- A new integration strategy / Carlos Massad. -- The old logics of the new international economic order / Vivianne Ventura Dias. -- Participation and concentration in social policies / Carlos Franco. -- The heterogeneity of poverty. The case of Montevideo / Rubén Kaztman. -- Key conceptual issues in the privatization of state-owned enterprises / Raymond Vernon.