List of Tables and Graphs Notes on the Contributors Introduction; E.Cardenas, J.A.Ocampo & R.Thorp Technological Learning, Institutional Development and the Microeconomics of Import Substitution; J.Katz & B.Kosacoff ECLA and the Theory of Import Substituting Industrialisation in Latin America; E.V.K.FitzGerald The Influence of International Financial Institutions on ISI; R.Webb The Industrialisation of Chile during Protectionism (1940-82); R.Ffrench-Davis, O.Munoz, J.M.Benavente & G.Crespi Import Substitution and Growth in Brazil, 1890s-1970s; R.Abreu, A.S.Bevilaqua & D.M.Pinho The Process of Accelerated Industrialisation in Mexico: 1929-82; E.Cardenas Industrialisation in Venezuela (1936-83): The Problem of Abundance; P.Astorga Colombia in the Classical Era of 'Inward-Looking Development', 1930-74; J.A.Ocampo & C.Tovar Import Substituting Industrialisation in Argentina in the Period 1940-80: Its Achievements and Shortcomings; J.M.Katz Import Substitution, Economic Integration and the Development of Central America: 1950-80; I.Cohen Index