Developments in the international monetary order and world trade have profoundly affected the Latin American region. This book is a collection of papers presented at the International Conference on World Trade-Monetary Order and Latin America.

Part 1 World trade and monetary order, Paolo Savona and Enzo Grilli; international financing and development in Latin America, Carlos Francisco Caceres; diversification among currencies in the contracting of external financing and effective debt burden, Alvaro Donoso; Latin American financial crisis - short and long term perspectives, Roque B. Fernandez; the management of the external debt burden, Robert Z. Aliber; U.S. bank's lending to developing countries - a longer term view, Henry S. Terrell and Rodney H. Mills. Part 2 Comments.