Table of contents

• The emergence of Latin multinationals / Javier Santiso
• The new urban poverty: global, regional and Argentine dynamics during the last two decades / Gabriel Kessler and María Mercedes Di Virgilio
• Economic regulation to supplement bidding for public works contracts / Eugenio Rivera Urrutia
• The relation between foreign-exchange and banking crises in emerging countries: information and expectations problems / Daniel Sotelsek and Lilianne Pavón
• Mexico’s slow-growth paradox / Carlos Ibarra
• Globalization and regional development: the economic performance of Chile’s regions, 1990-2002 / Juan Carlos Ramírez J. and Iván Silva Lira
• The fi nancial protection impact of the public health system and private insurance in Brazil / Antônio M. Bós and Hugh R. Waters
• The impact of gender discrimination on poverty in Brazil / Rosycler Cristina Santos Simão and Sandro Eduardo Monsueto
• Bank consolidation and credit concentration in Brazil (1995-2004) / Daniel B. de Castro Almeida and Frederico G. Jayme Jr.
• Guidelines for contributors to the CEPAL Review
• Recent ECLAC publications.