This volume examines issues of economic interest faced by Latin America economies in the late Twentieth-century. The fifteen chapters deal with macroeconomic problems, financial crises, the development of trade and trade agreements and labour issues. Of particular interest are the chapters dealing with Argentina, which provide an absorbing background to the financial crisis faced today.

GUILLERMO A. CALVO Inter-American Development Bank, Washington and University of Maryland, USA ALESSANDRO CIGNO Universita di Firenze, Florence, Italy VITTORIO CORBO Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile AFONSO FERREIRA Universidada Federal de Minais Gerais and Centro de Pesquisa em Economia, Belo Horizonte, Brazil MARCEL FRATSCCHER European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany KOICHI HAMADA Yale University, New Haven, USA ALICIA HERRERO Banco Central de Espana, Madrid, Spain TALAN ISCAN Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada ADRIANA KUGLER Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain LUIS MIOTTI Universite de Paris, Paris, France GRACIELA PINAL Universidad Nacional di Salta, Argentina CARLOS QUENAN CREDAL, Universite de Paris, France RANJAN RAY University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia HERNAN RINCON Banco de la Republica, Bogota, Colombia T. N. SRINIVASAN Yale University, New Haven, USA ANDREU SANSÓ Universitat de Barcelona, Spain VICTOR URQUIDI El Colegio di Mexico, Mexico City CARLOS WINOGRAD Secretary of State for Competition, Deregulation and consumer Affairs, Buenos Aires, Argentina