Identifying the variables relevant to the study of adjustment -- The determination of the political executive to undertake market adjustment -- The role of competent and honest technicians -- The autonomy of the reformist state -- The influence of electoral cycles -- Privileged linkages with corporate interest groups -- A new relationship between state and labour -- Assessing the economic performance of reforms -- Gaining international support for domestic reform -- Adjustment through regional integration -- Regional integration in support of market-oriented policies -- Obstacles to integration in partially liberalized markets -- Theoretical linkages between regional determinants and endogenous variables -- Will mercosur support the consolidation of southern cone democracies? -- Adjustment against justice -- Agrarian reform and the modernization of agriculture -- The issue of science and education -- Public intervention against marginality -- In search of political conditions to pursue social policies.

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