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Introduction / Enrique Bour, Daniel Heymann and Fernando Navajas -- Part I: Macroeconomic crises: 1. A comparison of currency crises between Asia and Latin America / Koichi Hamada ; 2. Latin American and the external crisis of the second half of the 1990s / Vittorio Corbo ; 3. Banking crises in Latin America in the 1990s: Lessons from Argentina, Paraguay and Venezuela / Alicia Garcia Herrero ; 4. On the causes of the Latin American and Asian currency crises of the 1990s / Marcel Fratzscher ; 5. Contagion in emerging markets: when wall street in the carrier / Guillermo A- Calvo -- Part II: Trade and trade agreements: 6. Preferential trade agreements at the turn of the century / T. N. Srinivasan ; 7. The role of sub-regional agreements in latin american economic integration / Victor Urquidi ; 8. International specialization and trade regimes in Argentina 1960-99 / Luis Miotti, Carlos Quenan and Carlos Winograd ; 9. Testing the short- and long-run exchange rate effects on the trade balance: The case of Colombia / Hernán Rincon ; 10. External shocks, relative prices and sectoral reallocation in a small open economy: evidence from Mexico / Talan Iscan ; 11. Exchange rate pass-through: The case of brazilian exports of manufacturers / Adriana Ferreira and Andreu Sansó -- Part III: Labour and income distribution: 12. The impact of firing costs on turnover and unemployment: evidence from Colombia / Adriana D. Kugler ; 13. Structural reform and the distribution effects of price changes in Argentina / Fernando H. Navajas ; 14. Endogenous child mortality, the price of child goods and fertility decisions: Evidence from Argentina / Alessandro Cigno and Graciela Pinal ; 15. Child labour in Peru: an empirical analysis and modelling implications / Ranjan Ray.