CEPAL Review no.72

Social stratification under tension in a globalized era / Emilio Klein and Víctor Tokman. -- Employment trends in Latin America and the Caribbean during the 1990s / Jürgen Weller. -- The labour market and income distribution in Colombia in the 1990s / José Antonio Ocampo, Fabio Sánchez and Camilo Ernesto Tovar. -- New challenges for equity in Uruguay / Rubén Kaztman, Fernando Filgueira and Magdalena Furtado. -- The adjustment strategies of Mexican ejidatarios in the face of neoliberal reform / Benjamin Davis. -- Population ageing and pension systems in Latin America / Jorge Bravo. -- Expert opinion as an instrument for assessing investment in primary education / Ernesto Schiefelbein, Laurence Wolff and Paulina Schiefelbein. -- What schools teach us about educating poor children in Chile? / Beverley A. Carlson. -- Static and dynamic effects of Mercosur. The case of the footwear sector / Marta Bekerman and Pablo Sirlin.