Latin American development problems and the world economic crisis

This article is a summary of the document submitted by the ECLA Secretariat to the Committee of High- Level Government Experts (CEGAN) at the latter’s meeting in New York in December 1982. Its main aim is to outline the nature and causes of the crisis through which the region is passing and to suggest some lines of action which could be followed in order to tackle the problem at both the domestic and external levels.