Reflections on economic development Book

Ch. I	Latin America at the time of the Prebisch Report	1
	The economy of Latin America in the postwar era	1
	The Latin American development model	9
	Basic concepts of the Prebisch Report	17
	Prebisch's intellectual legacy	20
Ch. II	Evolution and crisis of the economies of Latin America	25
	The obsolescence of the postwar development model	25
	Early theoretical criticisms of the model	33
	The debt crisis and its consequences	38
	Management of the external debt problem	42
Ch. III	From adjustment policies to structural reforms	49
	The region's problems in the nineties	49
	What is structural reform?	58
	The new economic debate in Latin America	64
	The quiet transformation of Latin America	70
	Toward a Latin American economic consensus	75
Ch. IV	The productive transformation of Latin America	81
	Some lessons of the 1980s	81
	The challenge of productive restructuring	84
	The role of the various players	93
Ch. V	The social aspects of development	101
	Social development in Latin America	101
	Strategies to combat poverty	108
	Upgrading human resources	112
Ch. VI	The international insertion of the region	121
	The fragility of the external context	121
	The world economic transition	125
	International economic coordination	139
Ch. VII	Foundation for an economic agenda for the 1990s	143
	Background and objectives	143
	Economic viability and the consolidation of reforms	145
	The social viability of the model	146
	State reform	148
	Strengthening the ability of private agents to act	150
	Technological modernization	151
	Development of human resources	152
	Consolidating and expanding the integration processes	153
	The international insertion of the region	154
	The environmental sustainability of development	156
	The political viability of current strategies	157