Latin American democracies in the new global economy / edited by Ana Margheritis.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreign policy and domestic restructuring in Latin America: recent achievements and future challenges / Ana Margheritis -- Economic integration and trade negotiations in Latin America and the Caribbean at the turn of the century / José Salazar-Xirinachs -- Economic integration in the southern cone: can MERCOSUR survive? / Roberto Bouzas -- Mexico: export promotion, North American Free Trade Agreement, and the future of North American economic integration / Gustavo Vega-Cánovas -- Mexican and other recent Latin American financial crises: how much systemic, how much policy? / Sidney Weintraub -- Alternatives to cope with financial instability in Latin America / Sylvia Maxfield -- What human capital policies can and cannot do for productivity and poverty reduction in Latin America / Suzanne Duryea, Carmen Pagés -- Education policy reform in Latin America: new opportunities, old constraints / Wendy Hunter -- The dilemma of decentralization in Latin America: risks and opportunities / Kent Eaton -- Democratic governance and the dilemma of social security reform / Peter Kingstone -- Foreign investment and democratic governance in Latin America / Richard Youngs -- The death of the universal development model: sustaining growth through differentiating domestic norms / Brian Potter.