Table of contents

• International financial reform: the broad agenda / José Antonio Ocampo
• Two challenges for the twenty-first century: achieving financial discipline and putting the internationalization process in order / Robert Boyer
• Labour costs and competitiveness in the Latin American manufacturing sector, 1990-1998 / Víctor E. Tokman and Daniel Martínez
• Worker participation in company profits or operating results in Latin America / Andrés E. Marinakis
• Social capital and culture: master keys to development / Bernardo Kliksberg
• Building community social capital / John Durston
• Technological maturity in the world petrochemical industry / Javier Jasso Villazul
• Access to housing and direct housing subsidies: some Latin American experiences / Gerardo M. Gonzales Arrieta
• Military expenditure in Colombia: macroeconomic and microeconomic aspects / Yaneth Giha Tobar, Héctor Riveros Reyes and Andrés Soto Velasco
• Reforms to health system financing in Chile / Daniel Titelman.