This volume honors Raúl Prebisch's contributions to economic thought and uses his 1970 report Change and Development: Latin America's Great Task as a point of departure for analyzing trends in the region in the 1970s and 1980s. This volume comprises a collection of the papers presented at the...

The rise of newly industrialized countries ( NICs ) and potential NICs in several regions of theworld has given the world economy a new structure which must be considered in anticpating future trends. In this report, the author analyzes three scenarios of world trade : 1) the base case scenario...