Washington, DC, Estados Unidos : Government Printing Office, 1963.

31 p. ; 24 cm.

Introduction. -- 1. The importance of the Middle America region. -- 2. Regional nearness does not rule out local differences. -- 3. The Republic of Panama and the Canal Zone. -- 4. The Mexican constitutional amendment requiring profit sharing. -- 5. Urgency of roads - if not yet, highways. -- 6. Illiteracy and the autonomous universities. -- 7. The uncertain pace of tax and land reform. -- 8. The multiplicity of avenues for loans and assistance. -- 9. The lag between loan and grant authorization and execution. -- 10. The applicability and use of Public Law 480 programs. -- 11. The central American common market and economic integration. -- 12. The unfinished business in Latin American development programs. -- Appendix 1 - Regional office, Central America and Panama (ROCAP). --

Tomado de la introducción: "The tremendous significance which the Latin American economies have upon the stability and growth of the U.S. domestic economy make it imperative that we thoroughly understand and constantly reappraise the progress and impact of the social reforms and economic developmental programs being undertaken in that part of the world. Our natural concern with these hemispheric relationships is reinforced in today's divided world by the significance which Latin American economic and social development has to world trade and international political developments."

Printed for the use of the Joint Economic Committee.