Acknowledgements - List of Contributors - List of Tables - List of Figures - Preface; A.Foxley - Introduction; V.Bulmer-Thomas - PART 1: THEMATIC STUDIES - The New Trade Regime, Macroeconomic Behaviour and Income Distribution in Latin America; E.V.K.FitzGerald - Chronic Fiscal Stress and the Reproduction of Poverty and Inequality in Latin America; L.Whitehead -The New Economic Model and Labour Markets in Latin America; J.Thomas - The New Financial Regime in Latin America; R.Fernandez - International Capital Flows to Latin America; S.Griffith-Jones - PART 2: CASE STUDIES - The Distributive Impact of the New Economic Model in Chile; C.Scott - Income Distribution and Poverty in Mexico; H.Panuco-Laguette & M.Szekely -Honduras, The New Economic Model and Poverty; A.Thorpe - Inequality and Poverty in the Lost Decade: Brazilian Income Distribution in the 1980s; F.Ferreira & J.Litchfield - The Manufacturing Sector in Latin America and the New Economic Model; J.Weeks - Conclusions; V.Bulmer-Thomas -Statistical Appendix - Bibliography - Index