Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-259) and index
State versus market: the rise and fall of import substitution -- Poverty brokers: the international monetary fund and the World Bank -- Silent revolution: Latin America's economic transformation since 1982 -- Silences of the revolution: the human and environmental costs of adjustment -- Trading places: Latin America in a changing world economy -- Export or die: export-led growth and regional trade -- For and against: the politics of neo-liberalism -- Other paths: the search for alternatives -- Country-by-country guide to the Latin American economy 1982-94 -- Rival economic models: Comparison of neo-structuralism, import substitution and neo-liberalism