Some aspects of the international distribution of industrial activity / Alfredo Eric Calcagno and Jean-Michel Jakobowicz. -- The industrialization debate in Latin America / Héctor Soza. -- Poverty in Latin America. A review of concepts and data / Oscar Altimir. -- Towards a social and political dimension of regional planning / Sergio Boisier. -- Main challenges of social development in the Caribbean / Jean Casimir. -- The Latin American periphery in the global system of capitalism / Raúl Prebisch. -- On peripheral capitalism and its transformation Comments by Octavio Rodriguez. Comments by Alberto Couriel.