The transnational corporations and Latin America's present form of economic growth / Luiz Claudio Marinho. -- The transnational corporations in a new planning process / Arturo Núñez del Prado. -- The east, the south and the transnational corporations / Alberto Jiménez de Lucio. -- Transnationals and mining development in Bolivia, Chile and Peru / Jan Kñakal. -- Transnational enterprises and the internationalization of capital in Brazilian industry / Maria da Conceigao Tavares and Aloisio Teixeira. -- The transnational corporations in the Chilean economy / Eugenio Lahera. -- The State and transnational banks; Lessons from the Bolivian crisis of external public indebtedness / Michael D. Mortimore. -- Transnational banks, external debt and Peru. Results of a recent study / Robert Devlin.