Includes bibliographical references and index.

Latin America : terrorism issues / Mark P. Sullivan -- State and regime in post-64 Brazil : bureaucratic authoritarianism or military dictatorship? / João Roberto Martins Filho -- Brazilian trade policy and the United States / J.F. Hornbeck -- The economic impact of unions and collective bargaining : lessons from the international experience / Amit Dar and Francisco Galrão Carneiro -- Economic development and the determinants of spatial integration in agricultural markets / Gloria González-Rivera and Steven M. Helfand -- Unions and the labor market in Brazil / Jorge Saba Arbache -- Labor market integration and economic adjustment / Norbert Fiess, Marco Fugazza and William F. Maloney -- The poverty implications of minimum wages in developing countries / Wendy Cunningham -- Rural development programs in Argentina and its institutions (in the context of neoliberal acroeconomic adjustment) / Mabel Manzanal -- Active labor market policies : evaluative evidence / Amit Dar -- Autonomous participation and political institutions in recent Brazilian democracy / Alberto Tosi Rodrigues -- The process of political transition in Brazil : issue and constraints in the consolidation of the democratic regime / Carlos S. Arturi.