Latin America in the future world / by George Sale, David Efron and Norman T. Ness.

Part one. The basic problem described and analyzed -- 1. Purchasing power, 3 -- 2. Nutrition, 14 -- 3. Housing and sanitation, 30 -- 4. Health, 39 -- 5. Geographic, cultural and land problems, 59 -- 6. Landownership in selected countries, 70 -- 7. Social and political status of labor, 90 -- 8. The pattern of economic activity, 100 -- Part two. War: economic dislocations and programs -- 9. Wartime influences on trade and the inflation problem, 149 -- 10. Trade regulation; development of supply; and financial and monetary adjustments, 162 -- 11. Food, health, and housing programs, 176 -- 12. Advances in education, 189 -- 13. Labor and social security legislation, 200 -- 14. Land reform and agricultural diversification, 200 -- 15. Wartime purchase programs, 249 -- 16. Planned economic development, 259 -- Part three. Recommended policies and implementation, 297 -- 17. Area of agreement on aims of policy, 297 -- 18. Postwar policies of the Americas, 301 -- 19. Proposed institutional arrangements, 323 -- Appendix, 335 -- Index, 361.