The problems associated with structural stagnation, the debt crisis, and policy mismanagement have proved resistant to the procedures of balance-of-payments stabilization and structural adjustment of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. This paper considers the challenges...

chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 The United Nations and Development -- chapter 3 Poverty in the Americas -- chapter 4 Meeting Basic Human Needs -- chapter 5 Women in the Americas -- chapter 6 Promoting Gender Equity -- chapter 7 Ecology of the Americas -- chapter 8 Preserving Natural...