Address delivered by the Executive Secretary of ECLAC, Mr. Norberto González, when opening the Meeting on Growth, Adjustment and the Debt in Latin America. -- Central America: Bases for a reactivation and development policy / ECLAC Mexico Subregional Headquarters. -- Thoughts on industrialization, linkage and growth / Joint ECLAC/UNIDO Industrial Development Division. -- Inflation and stabilization policies / Daniel Heymann. -- Transnational corporations in Argentina, 1976-1983 / Daniel Aspiazu, Eduardo Basualdo and Bernardo Kosacoff. -- Social security and development in Latin America / Carmelo Mesa-Lago. -- Changes of social relevance in the transplantation of theories: the examples of economics and agronomics / Ivo Dubiel. -- The preparation of natural and cultural heritage inventories and accounts / Nicolo Gligo. -- Co-operativism and popular participation: new considerations regarding an old subject / Roberto P. Guimarães. -- Notes on trade from the standpoint of the periphery / Raúl Prebisch.