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	CEPAL Review No. 98December, 2009

OSVALDO SUNKEL
Chairman of the Editorial Council

ANDRÉ HOFMAN
Director

MIGUEL TORRES
Technical Editor

The bigness of smallness: The financial crisis, its contagion mechanisms and its effects in Latin America
Daniel Titelman, Esteban Pérez Caldentey and Ramón Pineda

Poverty reduction in Latin America: the role of demographic, social and economic factors
Jaime Ros

Youth and feelings of belonging in Latin America: causes and risks of social fragmentation
Gonzalo A. Saraví

Trade policy reform and poverty: successes and failures in Central America
Marco V. Sánchez

The impact of remittances on macroeconomic stability: the cases of Mexico and Central America
Eliseo Díaz González

Determinants of world manufacturing exports to China, 1990-2006
Roberto Álvarez E., Eugenio Figueroa B., María Pía Figueroa Z. and Macarena Palma E.

Latin America: highlights from the implementation of the System of National Accounts 1993
Roberto Olinto Ramos, Gonzalo Pastor and Lisbeth Rivas

Social benefits in Uruguay: why do some potential beneficiaries not apply?
Gabriel Burdín and Gioia de Melo

Socio-economic and geographic profiling of crime in Chile
Mauro Gutiérrez, Javier Núñez and Jorge Rivera

Latin American structuralism and economic theory
Armando Di Filippo

Explanatory notes

The following symbols are used in tables in the Review:
	Three dots indicate that data are not available or are not separately reported.
	A dash indicates that the amount is nil or negligible.
	A blank space in a table means that the item in question is not applicable.
	A minus sign indicates a deficit or decrease, unless otherwise specifi ed.
	A point is used to indicate decimals.
	A slash indicates a crop year or fiscal year; e.g., 2006/2007.
	Use of a hyphen between years (e.g., 2006-2007) indicates reference to the complete period considered, including the beginning and end years.
The word "tons" means metric tons and the word "dollars" means United States dollars, unless otherwise stated. References to annual rates of growth or variation signify compound annual rates. Individual fi gures and percentages in tables do not necessarily add up to the corresponding totals because of rounding.