Crisis and development in Latin America and the Caribbean

At its twentieth session, held in Lima in April 1984, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean decided, inter alia, that at the 1985 session of the Committee of the Whole one of the main items should be “the examination of those pivotal aspects of long-term economic and social development policy which could serve as sources of inspiration for meeting the challenges posed to the countries of the region by the changes in the international economy”.